Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1998, 5:10 PM MDT for Chaves County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 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, 5:10 PM MDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1998, 6:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chaves County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2133 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
510 WUUS1 KABQ 302324 RRA SVRABQ NMC005-041-310010- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...retransmission SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 510 PM MDT THU JUL 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CHAVES COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 610 PM MDT * AT 509 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF ROGERS TO ELIDA TO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF KENNA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THESE STORMS ARE A THREAT TO PEOPLE IN...ROGERS...DORA AND ELIDA. SEVERE STORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OF AT LEAST 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. SEEK INDOOR SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Santa Fe | 63 min |
| Jul 30, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora | 50 min |
| Jul 30, 3:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 113 min |
| Jul 30, 3:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 63 min |
| Jul 30, 3:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel, Torrance | 58 min |
| Jul 30, 4:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union | 61 min |
| Jul 30, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel, Torrance | 64 min |
| Jul 30, 4:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel, Santa Fe | 2 hr |
| Jul 30, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 62 min |
| Jul 30, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 62 min |
| Jul 30, 5:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 61 min |
| Jul 30, 5:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 61 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.