Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 30, 1998Curry County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 30, 1998, 8:54 AM MST for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 46 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: Oct 30, 1998, 8:54 AM MST (15:54 UTC)
Expired: Oct 30, 1998, 9:40 AM MST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County Curry County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 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-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: 226 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 301554
SVRABQ
NMC009-301640-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
854 AM MST FRI OCT 30 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 940 AM MST

* AT 851 AM MST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLOVIS OR 2 MILES
  NORTH OF PLEASANT HILL... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

PEOPLE IN RANCH HOMES AND ON RURAL ROADS ARE THREATENED BY THIS
STORM.


SEVERE STORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OF AT LEAST 60 MPH AND LARGE
HAIL. SEEK INDOOR SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. REMEMBER...SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 30, 4:09 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	61 min
Oct 30, 1:31 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	49 min
Oct 30, 1:57 PM MST	Tornado Warning	ABQ	De Baca	48 min
Oct 30, 2:42 PM MST	Tornado Warning	ABQ	De Baca	48 min
Oct 30, 2:55 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	50 min
Oct 30, 3:15 PM MST	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	50 min
Oct 30, 3:44 PM MST	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry	46 min
Oct 30, 3:52 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	43 min
Oct 30, 4:02 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	48 min
Oct 30, 4:30 PM MST	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry	45 min
Oct 30, 4:34 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	46 min
Oct 30, 4:54 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.