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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 29, 1998Cibola County, Socorro County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 1998, 2:06 PM MST for Cibola County, Socorro 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: Sep 29, 1998, 2:06 PM MST (21:06 UTC)
Expired: Sep 29, 1998, 3:10 PM MST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cibola County, NM, Socorro County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 423 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1733 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

476 
WUUS1 KABQ 292107 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC006-053-292210-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
306 PM MDT TUE SEP 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN CIBOLA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  NORTHWESTERN SOCORRO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 410 PM MDT

* AT 303 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AT
  ALBUQUERQUE INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 47 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  SOCORRO OR 1 MILE NORTHWEST OF ALAMO MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

* THIS STORM IS A THREAT TO PEOPLE IN RANCH HOMES AND RURAL
  COMMUNITIES....INCLUDING ALAMO.


DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. FOR SHELTER...GO INSIDE A
STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

CSM

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, Sep 29, 1:17 PM MST, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
217 PM MDT TUE SEP 29 1998

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0120 PM    ZUNI                      NM   .88 INCH HAIL
09/29/98   MCKINLEY

0146 PM    FARMINGTON                NM   .75 INCH HAIL
09/29/98   SAN JUAN                       1 MILE EAST OF DOWNTOWNT

0146 PM    NAVAJO DAM                NM   .88 INCH HAIL
09/29/98   SAN JUAN                       WEST SIDE OF LAKE

Local storm report, Sep 29, 1:17 PM MST, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
217 PM MDT TUE SEP 29 1998

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0120 PM    ZUNI                      NM   .88 INCH HAIL
09/29/98   MCKINLEY

0146 PM    FARMINGTON                NM   .75 INCH HAIL
09/29/98   SAN JUAN                       1 MILE EAST OF DOWNTOWNT

0146 PM    NAVAJO DAM                NM   .88 INCH HAIL
09/29/98   SAN JUAN                       WEST SIDE OF LAKE

Local storm report, Sep 29, 2:01 PM MST, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
301 PM MDT TUE SEP 29 1998

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0138 PM    WHITEWATER                NM   .75 INCH HAIL
09/29/98   MCKINLEY                       1 MILE SOUTH OF
                                          VANDERWAGEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 29, 12:20 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Juan	65 min
Sep 29, 12:23 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	McKinley	62 min
Sep 29, 1:05 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, Socorro	60 min
Sep 29, 1:13 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	62 min
Sep 29, 2:09 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	61 min
Sep 29, 2:58 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Santa Fe, Torrance	62 min
Sep 29, 3:09 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Cibola, Socorro, Valencia	61 min
Sep 29, 3:12 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	63 min
Sep 29, 3:18 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	62 min
Sep 29, 3:27 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	63 min
Sep 29, 4:01 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel, Santa Fe	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1998 Every 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.