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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 16, 1998Bernalillo County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1998, 4:47 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 48 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 16, 1998, 4:47 PM MDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1998, 5:35 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Bernalillo County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 6 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1998-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 39 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1998-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 2:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRio Arriba50 min
Jul 16, 2:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax50 min
Jul 16, 4:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRio Arriba46 min
Jul 16, 4:13 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQRio Arriba2 hr
Jul 16, 5:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQValencia25 min

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.