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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 362

May 30, 19978 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 30, 1997, 7:00 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 1997, 7:00 PM MDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1997, 1:00 AM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM

Warnings issued inside it

4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 7:16 PM MDTTornado WarningABQGuadalupe64 min
May 30, 7:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca61 min
May 30, 8:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe58 min
May 30, 8:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, De Baca61 min

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 250 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2664 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 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
2664 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
8.5

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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.