Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 16, 1997San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1997, 1:49 PM MDT for San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 51 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 16, 1997, 1:49 PM MDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1997, 2:40 PM MDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County San Miguel County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 284 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 1997-05-16Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1997-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -113 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
1109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 2:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion48 min
May 16, 3:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion51 min
May 16, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion50 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.