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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 17, 1998Catron County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1998, 6:08 PM MDT for Catron County, New Mexico. It was in force for 42 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 17, 1998, 6:08 PM MDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 1998, 6:50 PM MDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Catron County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 200 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 208 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 00:00Z on 1998-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 225 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 00:00Z on 1998-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 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
225 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2046 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 180007 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC003-180050-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
608 PM MDT FRI JUL 17 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CATRON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 650 PM MDT

* AT 606 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN GILA WILDERNESS
  IN SOUTHERN CATRON COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED 25 TO 35 MILES
  EAST AND NORTHEAST OF GLENWOOD. THE STORMS WERE  MOVING SOUTHWEST
  AT 15 MPH.

HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE SUDDEN AND DANGEROUS
FLOODING IN ARROYOS...DITC:HES AND OVER LOW WATER CROSSINGS.  DO NOT
DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADS OR WADE INTO FLOODED DITCHES.

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.