Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 11, 1997, 4:11 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 11, 1997, 4:11 PM MDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 11, 1997, 4:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Colfax County, NM
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Cimarron, NM | A small tornado was observed on the Tooth of Time ridge southwest of Cimarron. |
| Oct 11, 4:40 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Cimarron, NM | A second small tornado developed on the CS Ranch east of Cimarron. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 247 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 643 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 4:49 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 31 min |
| Oct 11, 5:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 37 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.