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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 30, 1998Chaves County, De Baca County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 30, 1998, 1:31 PM MST for Chaves County, De Baca County, New Mexico. It was in force for 49 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: Oct 30, 1998, 1:31 PM MST (20:31 UTC)
Expired: Oct 30, 1998, 2:20 PM MST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

Counties Chaves County, NM, De Baca County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 30, 1:50 PM MST	Hail 2.5	Ft Sumner, NM	NWS cooperative observer at Canton recorded a funnel cloud following tennis ball hail.

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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 239 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: 22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1234 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 30, 4:09 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	61 min
Oct 30, 8:54 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	46 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

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.