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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 5, 1997Guadalupe County, San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1997, 1:51 AM MDT for Guadalupe County, San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 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
Jun 5, 1997, 1:51 AM MDT (07:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1997, 2:50 AM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties Guadalupe County, NM, San Miguel County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 164 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1997-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 173 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1997-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 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 050749 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC019-047-050850-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
151 AM MDT THU JUN 5 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 250 AM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

   ...GUADALUPE COUNTY

IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

   ...SOUTHWESTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY
 
AT 140 AM MDT A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDED FROM SENA IN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY SOUTHEAST THROUGH CENTRAL
GUADALUPE COUNTY TO SANTA ROSA...THEN ALONG INTERSTATE 40 TO EAST OF
NEWKIRK. INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 15 TO 20 MILES
AN HOUR WHILE THE LINE OF STORMS WAS SAGGING SOUTHWARD.

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.

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

Local storm report, Jun 5, 1:19 AM MDT, 32 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
119 AM MDT THU JUN 05 1997

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0113 AM    ROSWELL                   NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/97   CHAVES                         ALSO WEST SIDE OF ROSWELL
                                          3/4 INCH HAIL
Local storm report, Jun 5, 1:20 AM MDT, 31 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
119 AM MDT THU JUN 05 1997

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0113 AM    ROSWELL                   NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/97   CHAVES                         ALSO WEST SIDE OF ROSWELL
                                          3/4 INCH HAIL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 9:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Harding, Mora60 min
Jun 4, 10:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Mora58 min
Jun 4, 10:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora, San Miguel66 min
Jun 4, 11:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel61 min
Jun 5, 12:28 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves62 min
Jun 5, 12:36 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel59 min
Jun 5, 12:38 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe62 min
Jun 5, 1:38 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves57 min
Jun 5, 3:06 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt59 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.