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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 29, 1998San Miguel County, Santa Fe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 1998, 5:01 PM MDT for San Miguel County, Santa Fe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports 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, 5:01 PM MDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired: Sep 29, 1998, 6:05 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

Counties San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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, 5:25 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Glorieta, NM
Sep 29, 5:34 PM MDT	Hail 1	Tererro, 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 120 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.

257 
WUUS1 KABQ 292301 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC047-049-300005-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME WESTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO
  EASTERN SANTA FE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 605 PM MDT

* AT 458 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND SPOTTER
  REPORTS INDICATED A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WITH HIGH WIND AND
  LARGE HAIL 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SANTA FE OR 2 MILES WEST
  SOUTHWEST OF GLORIETA MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS THREATENED BY THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE... GLORIETA...
  TERERRO AND COWLES.

* THE STORM WIL CROSS I-25 NEAR GLORIETA BY 515 PM.

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

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 44 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, 2:17 PM MDT, 2 hours 44 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, 3:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 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

Local storm report, Sep 29, 4:04 PM MDT, 57 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   TORRANCE

Local storm report, Sep 29, 4:39 PM MDT, 22 minutes before

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

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

0350 PM    MORIARTY                  NM   1 INCH HAIL
09/29/98   TORRANCE

0405 PM    STANLEY                   NM   .75 INCH HAIL
09/29/98   SANTA FE                       DIME SIZE HAIL COVERED
                                          GROUND 1NE STANLEY

The 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, 4:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	62 min
Sep 29, 4:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	63 min

Nearby

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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.