Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 212, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 10, 1997De Baca County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1997, 9:42 PM MDT for De Baca County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 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 10, 1997, 9:42 PM MDT (03:42 UTC)
Expired
Sep 10, 1997, 10:45 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County De Baca County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 215 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 00:00Z on 1997-09-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 16 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1997-09-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
Sep 10, 6:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln68 min
Sep 10, 6:20 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQLincoln2 hr
Sep 11, 4:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel29 min
Sep 11, 5:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, San Miguel48 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.