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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 29, 1997Harding County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1997, 6:49 PM MDT for Harding County, New Mexico. It was in force for 61 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 29, 1997, 6:49 PM MDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1997, 7:50 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Harding County, NM

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 29, 5:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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 1997-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1786 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 1997-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 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
1786 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
5.4

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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
May 29, 6:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay61 min
May 29, 7:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay, San Miguel62 min
May 29, 8:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Quay57 min
May 30, 4:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Harding, Mora63 min
May 30, 5:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel58 min
May 30, 5:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel52 min
May 30, 5:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel63 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.