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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 21, 1997Rio Arriba County, San Juan County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 1997, 5:45 PM MDT for Rio Arriba County, San Juan County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 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 21, 1997, 5:45 PM MDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired
Sep 21, 1997, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 1997-09-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-09-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1218 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 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
Sep 21, 5:33 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQMcKinley57 min
Sep 21, 5:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMcKinley57 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.