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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 7, 1997Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1997, 3:38 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 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
May 7, 1997, 3:38 PM MDT (21:38 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1997, 4:40 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Union County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 212 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 12:00Z on 1997-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 250 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 12:00Z on 1997-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 240 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
250 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-365 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1218 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
240 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 072137 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC059-072240-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
338 PM MDT WED MAY 7 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 440 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

   ...SOUTHERN UNION COUNTY
 
AT 336 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY
DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF CLAPHAM MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...STEAD AND SEDAN.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND 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 DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 1:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora60 min
May 7, 2:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding63 min
May 7, 2:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion62 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.