Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 1998, 3:09 PM MDT for Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. It was in force for 61 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
- Sep 29, 1998, 3:09 PM MDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1998, 4:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rio Arriba County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 4:20 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Nutrias, 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
495 WUUS1 KABQ 292110 RRA SVRABQ NMC039-292210- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 309 PM MDT TUE SEP 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL AND EASTERN RIO ARRIBA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 410 PM MDT * AT 308 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WITH HIGH WIND AND LARGE HAIL 25 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF CHAMA OR 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EL VADO MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS THREATENED BY THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE... EL VADO... RUTHERON... LA PUENTE... TIERRA AMARILLA AND BRAZOS. 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. 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, 2:17 PM MDT, 52 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 LAKELocal storm report, Sep 29, 2:17 PM MDT, 52 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 LAKELocal storm report, Sep 29, 3:01 PM MDT, 8 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
VANDERWAGENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 1:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Juan | 65 min |
| Sep 29, 1:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | McKinley | 62 min |
| Sep 29, 2:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Catron, Cibola, Socorro | 60 min |
| Sep 29, 2:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 62 min |
| Sep 29, 3:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Cibola, Socorro | 64 min |
| Sep 29, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Santa Fe, Torrance | 62 min |
| Sep 29, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Cibola, Socorro, Valencia | 61 min |
| Sep 29, 4:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 63 min |
| Sep 29, 4:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 62 min |
| Sep 29, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 63 min |
| Sep 29, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel, Santa Fe | 64 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.