Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 26, 1998Curry County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 1998, 7:09 PM MST for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 26, 1998, 7:09 PM MST (02:09 UTC)
Expired
Mar 26, 1998, 7:40 PM MST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Curry County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 00:00Z on 1998-03-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 648 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 00:00Z on 1998-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 273 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
648 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1808 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
273 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
336 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
4.8

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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.