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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 11, 1999Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1999, 4:38 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 47 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
Jun 11, 1999, 4:38 PM MDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1999, 5:25 PM MDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Colfax County, NM

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 11, 4:50 PM MDTHail 1Springer, 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 nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 306 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1999-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 795 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1999-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 178 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
795 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-262 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1098 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
381 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
9.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 5:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Mora47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.