Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 26, 1998Roosevelt County, New Mexico

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1998-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 356 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1998-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 3:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt50 min
May 26, 4:02 PM MDTTornado WarningABQRoosevelt48 min
May 26, 4:48 PM MDTTornado WarningABQRoosevelt47 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.