Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 1998, 4:18 PM MDT for Chaves 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
- Sep 29, 1998, 4:18 PM MDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1998, 5:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chaves County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2362 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
025 WUUS1 KABQ 292219 RRA SVRABQ NMC005-292320- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 418 PM MDT TUE SEP 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN CHAVES COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 520 PM MDT * AT 416 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF ROSWELL MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THIS STORM IS MOVING OVER OPEN RANGELAND AND REMOTE AREAS. 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, 2:17 PM MDT, 2 hours 1 minute 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, 2 hours 1 minute 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, 1 hour 17 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
VANDERWAGENLocal storm report, Sep 29, 4:04 PM MDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
404 PM MDT TUE SEP 29 1998
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0315 PM EL VADO NM 1 INCH HAIL
09/29/98 RIO ARRIBA HAIL FELL FOR 10 MINUTES
REACHING A DEPTH OF 2
INCHES.
0322 PM ALAMO NM .88 INCH HAIL
09/29/98 SOCORRO
0354 PM MORIARTY NM .88 INCH HAIL
09/29/98 TORRANCEThe 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, 3:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 61 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, 4:27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.