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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 23, 1998Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 1998, 1:48 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 72 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
Sep 23, 1998, 1:48 PM MDT (19:48 UTC)
Expired
Sep 23, 1998, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
72 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Colfax County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 247 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 1998-09-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 154 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 1998-09-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 241 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
154 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1441 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
241 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
275 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

670 
WUUS1 KABQ 231949 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC007-232100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
148 PM MDT WED SEP 23 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN COLFAX COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 300 PM MDT

* AT 145 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTH OF RATON OR 8 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF MAXWELL MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* PEOPLE IN RANCH HOMES AND ON RURAL ROADS EAST OF INTERSTATE 25 ARE
  THREATENED BY THIS STORM.

KJ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 23, 5:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, Lincoln54 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.