Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 5, 1997Curry County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1997, 3:06 AM MDT for Curry County, Roosevelt 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, 3:06 AM MDT (09:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1997, 4:05 AM MDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

Counties Curry County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 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-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: 1432 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2244 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

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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

Local storm report, Jun 5, 1:19 AM MDT, 1 hour 47 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, 1 hour 46 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 9:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora	60 min
Jun 4, 10:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora	58 min
Jun 4, 10:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	66 min
Jun 4, 11:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	61 min
Jun 5, 12:28 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	62 min
Jun 5, 12:36 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	59 min
Jun 5, 12:38 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	62 min
Jun 5, 1:38 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	57 min
Jun 5, 1:51 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.