Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 23, 1997Chaves County, Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1997, 12:31 AM MDT for Chaves County, Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 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
Aug 23, 1997, 12:31 AM MDT (06:31 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 1997, 1:30 AM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chaves County, NM, Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 248 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 1997-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 908 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 1997-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 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
908 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 6:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance57 min
Aug 22, 7:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance46 min
Aug 22, 8:01 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQTorrance59 min
Aug 22, 8:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance59 min
Aug 22, 9:52 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQBernalillo, Valencia2 hr
Aug 22, 9:52 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSocorro2 hr
Aug 22, 10:23 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQChaves67 min
Aug 22, 10:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves67 min
Aug 22, 11:27 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQChaves, Lincoln63 min
Aug 22, 11:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, Lincoln63 min
Aug 23, 12:31 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQChaves, Lincoln59 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.