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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 15, 1997Curry County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1997, 12:20 AM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 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 15, 1997, 12:20 AM MDT (06:20 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1997, 1:05 AM MDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Curry County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 1997-05-15Temperature 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 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 1997-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2253 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 150620 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC009-150705-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1220 AM MDT THU MAY 15 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 105 AM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

   ...EASTERN CURRY COUNTY
 
AT 1220 AM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
RADAR 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF RANCHVALE...OR 13 MILES NORTH OF
CLOVIS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM IS CABABLE OF
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN.

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 9:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Quay60 min
May 14, 10:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca65 min
May 15, 2:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSanta Fe, Torrance63 min
May 15, 3:10 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQTorrance60 min
May 15, 3:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance60 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.