Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1998, 6:38 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 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, 6:38 PM MDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1998, 7:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Union County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 1429 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2183 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Local storm report, Jul 30, 6:00 PM MDT, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
600 PM MDT THU JUL 30 1998
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0435 PM CLINES CORNERS NM .75 INCH HAIL
07/30/98 TORRANCE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN
AND STRONG WINDSLocal storm report, Jul 30, 6:07 PM MDT, 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
607 PM MDT THU JUL 30 1998
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0425 PM GALLINAS NM FLOODING
07/30/98 SAN MIGUEL FLASH FLOODING AND SMALL
HAIL REPORTED BY FIRE DEPT
0515 PM LAS VEGAS NM FLOODING
07/30/98 SAN MIGUEL FLASH FLOODING. 2.5 INCHES
RAIN BTWEEN 1530 AND 1630
MDT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 59 min |
| Jul 30, 6:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Quay | 2 hr |
| Jul 30, 6:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry | 2 hr |
| Jul 30, 7:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 102 min |
| Jul 30, 7:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 102 min |
| Jul 30, 8:59 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
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.