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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 11, 1997Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 11, 1997, 6:59 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 46 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
Oct 11, 1997, 6:59 PM MDT (00:59 UTC)
Expired
Oct 11, 1997, 7:45 PM MDT
In force
46 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 00:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 11, 4:30 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 306 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 00:00Z on 1997-10-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 679 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 00:00Z on 1997-10-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 142 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
679 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.9

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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
Oct 11, 6:26 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves24 min
Oct 11, 7:10 PM MDTTornado WarningABQColfax30 min
Oct 11, 7:48 PM MDTTornado WarningABQColfax32 min
Oct 11, 8:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora31 min
Oct 11, 9:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax40 min
Oct 11, 10:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Union31 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.