Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 5, 1997Colfax County, Harding County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 1997, 4:29 PM MDT for Colfax County, Harding County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 61 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
Sep 5, 1997, 4:29 PM MDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
Sep 5, 1997, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties Colfax County, NM, Harding County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 238 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 1997-09-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 45 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 1997-09-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 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
45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 052230 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC007-021-059-052330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
429 PM MDT FRI SEP 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN COLFAX COUNTY...NORTHERN HARDING COUNTY
   ...SOUTHWESTERN UNION COUNTY
 
AT 427 PM MDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF SOUTHEAST COLFAX...SOUTHWEST UNION AND NORTHERN
HARDING COUNTY MOVING TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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Nearby

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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.