Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1998, 3:08 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 47 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 26, 1998, 3:08 PM MDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1998, 3:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 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 21:09 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
406 WUUS1 KABQ 262110 RRA SVRABQ NMC041-262155- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 308 PM MDT TUE MAY 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 355 PM MDT * AT 305 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PORTALES OR 5 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF ELIDA MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING TOWARDS... ELIDA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. IF OUTSIDE...MOVE TO SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES OR OTHER ISOLATED TALL OBJECTS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 26, 9:49 AM MDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026-270300- SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 949 AM MDT TUE MAY 26 1998 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. SYNOPSIS...UNSTABLE SOUTHEAST FLOW WILL CONTINUE OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO TODAY WHERE A MOIST AIRMASS IS IN PLACE. COMBINED WITH A WEAK DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON ADDITIONAL FORCING WILL BE PROVIDED FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THE MAIN THREAT FROM A FEW STORMS THAT REACH SEVERE LEVELS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION...MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR AREAS EAST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN. COUNTIES WHERE SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED... ...EASTERN NEW MEXICO... UNION HARDING QUAY CURRY ROOSEVELT COLFAX MORA SAN MIGUEL GUADALUPE DEBACA CHAVES ...CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... NONE ...WESTERN AND NORTHERN NEW MEXICO... NONE THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO. FOR THE FAR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...SEE AFOS PRODUCT LBBSPSMAF. FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...SEE AFOS PRODUCT LBBSPSELP JH
Special weather statement, May 26, 9:49 AM MDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026-270300- SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 949 AM MDT TUE MAY 26 1998 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. SYNOPSIS...UNSTABLE SOUTHEAST FLOW WILL CONTINUE OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO TODAY WHERE A MOIST AIRMASS IS IN PLACE. COMBINED WITH A WEAK DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON ADDITIONAL FORCING WILL BE PROVIDED FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THE MAIN THREAT FROM A FEW STORMS THAT REACH SEVERE LEVELS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION...MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR AREAS EAST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN. COUNTIES WHERE SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED... ...EASTERN NEW MEXICO... UNION HARDING QUAY CURRY ROOSEVELT COLFAX MORA SAN MIGUEL GUADALUPE DEBACA CHAVES ...CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... NONE ...WESTERN AND NORTHERN NEW MEXICO... NONE THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO. FOR THE FAR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...SEE AFOS PRODUCT LBBSPSMAF. FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...SEE AFOS PRODUCT LBBSPSELP JH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 50 min |
| May 26, 4:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 48 min |
| May 26, 4:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 47 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.