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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 8, 1998Bernalillo County, Torrance County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1998, 6:33 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 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
Jul 8, 1998, 6:33 PM MDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1998, 7:35 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Torrance County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 333 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 1998-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 284 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 1998-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
284 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2823 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 6:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQValencia59 min
Jul 8, 6:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe61 min
Jul 8, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Union60 min
Jul 8, 7:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay, Union64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.