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Tornado Watch 391

June 7, 1997Greenlee County, Arizona; 7 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 7, 1997, 11:15 AM MST for Greenlee County, Arizona; 7 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 1997, 11:15 AM MST (18:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 1997, 5:00 PM MST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Greenlee County, AZ, Catron County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM, Luna County, NM, Sierra County, NM, Socorro County, NM, El Paso County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 12:01 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana, Luna	64 min
Jun 7, 12:29 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant	61 min
Jun 7, 1:03 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Sierra	62 min
Jun 7, 3:22 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	63 min
Jun 7, 3:55 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	75 min

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 670 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1182 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 266 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 071807
MKC WW 071747
AZZ000-NMZ000-TXZ000-080000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 391
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1147 AM MDT SAT JUN 7 1997

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

   EXTREME EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ARIZONA
   WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO
   FAR WEST TEXAS

EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 1215 PM UNTIL
600 PM MDT.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1 3/4 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND
GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE
AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 90 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST
OF A LINE FROM 80 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF SOCORRO NEW MEXICO TO 60
MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF EL PASO TEXAS.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
.

...WEISS

;342,1063 312,1054 312,1085 342,1094;

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 4:00 PM MST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Chaves, Doña Ana, Eddy, Lincoln, Otero, Socorro	5 hr

Nearby

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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.