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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 30, 1998San Miguel County, Torrance County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1998, 4:31 PM MDT for San Miguel County, Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 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 30, 1998, 4:31 PM MDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 1998, 5:35 PM MDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties San Miguel County, NM, Torrance County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 1998-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 44 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 1998-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -61 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
44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-220 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2180 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 30, 2:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSanta Fe63 min
Jul 30, 2:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Mora50 min
Jul 30, 3:07 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQLincoln113 min
Jul 30, 3:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax63 min
Jul 30, 3:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel, Torrance58 min
Jul 30, 4:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Harding, Mora, Union61 min
Jul 30, 4:40 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSan Miguel, Santa Fe2 hr
Jul 30, 5:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, Roosevelt60 min
Jul 30, 5:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Union62 min
Jul 30, 5:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel62 min
Jul 30, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Quay61 min
Jul 30, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca61 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.