Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 25, 1998Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1998, 4:31 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 44 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
May 25, 1998, 4:31 PM MDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1998, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Roosevelt County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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 1998-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1998-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -150 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
28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-449 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

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

855 
WUUS1 KABQ 252232 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC041-252315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
431 PM MDT MON MAY 25 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 426 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 28 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF PORTALES OR 11
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELIDA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1998Every 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.