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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 28, 1997Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1997, 2:34 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1997, 2:34 PM MDT (20:34 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1997, 3:30 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Union County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 212 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 453 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
453 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1495 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 1:26 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQBernalillo2 hr
Jul 28, 1:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo2 hr
Jul 28, 2:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance60 min
Jul 28, 2:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.