Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1998, 5:01 PM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 49 min. 3 reports 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 7, 1998, 5:01 PM MDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1998, 5:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Curry County, NM
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 5:30 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Melrose, NM | |
| Jun 7, 5:45 PM MDT | Hail 3 | Melrose, NM | Hail ranged from 1 inch to 3 inches in diameter during a 17 minute period at Melrose. |
| Jun 7, 5:45 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Cannon Afb, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 072301 RRA SVRABQ NMC009-072350- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 501 PM MDT SUN JUN 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 550 PM MDT * AT 500 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 39 MILES WEST OF CLOVIS OR 15 MILES WEST OF MELROSE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING TOWARDS... MELROSE. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. MOVE INDOORS AND AWAY FROM AREAS WHERE LOOSE ITEMS COULD BECOME FLYING DEBRIS. BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 12:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 32 min |
| Jun 7, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 48 min |
| Jun 7, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Roosevelt | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 4:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 44 min |
| Jun 7, 4:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Quay | 49 min |
| Jun 7, 5:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Quay | 49 min |
| Jun 7, 5:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 50 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.