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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 29, 1997Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1997, 8:23 PM MDT for Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 1997, 8:23 PM MDT (02:23 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1997, 9:20 PM MDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

Counties Curry County, NM, Quay County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 29, 8:40 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Glenrio, NM

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 29, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 29, 8:20 PM MDT, 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 8:21 PM MDT, 2 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 6:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	61 min
May 29, 6:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	61 min
May 29, 7:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	62 min
May 30, 4:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora	63 min
May 30, 5:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	58 min
May 30, 5:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	52 min
May 30, 5:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1997 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.