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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 9, 1997Torrance County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1997, 5:54 PM MDT for Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 66 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 9, 1997, 5:54 PM MDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 1997, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Torrance County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 82 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1997-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1997-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-223 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1991 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 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 092354 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC057-100100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
554 PM MDT TUE SEP 9 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
 
   ...NORTHERN AND CENTRAL TORRANCE COUNTY
 
AT 555 PM MDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED BY DOPPLER RADAR 10 TO
20 MILES WEST OF CLINES CORNERS...MOVING SOUTHEAST NEAR 15 MPH. THESE
STORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST FROM MORIARTY
TO U.S. HIGHWAY 60.
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 9, 4:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel64 min
Sep 9, 5:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, De Baca64 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.