Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1998, 2:40 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 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
- Jul 16, 1998, 2:40 PM MDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1998, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Colfax County, NM
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 3:25 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Angel Fire, NM | Small hail with some nickel sized stones covered the ground to 3 inches deep at Palo Flechado Pass (el. 9101ft) west northwest of Angel Fire. |
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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 50 min |
| Jul 16, 4:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 46 min |
| Jul 16, 4:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 4:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 48 min |
| Jul 16, 5:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Valencia | 25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.