Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 28, 1998Catron County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1998, 4:58 PM MDT for Catron County, New Mexico. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 1998, 4:58 PM MDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1998, 5:45 PM MDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Catron County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 200 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 28, 5:15 PM MDTHail 1Reserve, NM

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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 1998-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 741 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 1998-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 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
741 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

206 
WUUS1 KABQ 282300 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC003-282345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
458 PM MDT FRI AUG 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CATRON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 545 PM MDT

* AT 458 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES NORTH OF RESERVE OR 6 MILES NORTH
  OF RED HILL MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING TOWARDS... RED HILL.


HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE SUDDEN AND DANGEROUS
FLOODING IN ARROYOS...DITCHES AND OVER LOW WATER CROSSINGS.  DO NOT
DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADS OR WADE INTO FLOODED DITCHES.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 5:31 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQCatron89 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.