Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 30, 1998, 4:49 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Torrance 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 30, 1998, 4:49 PM MDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 1998, 5:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lincoln County, NM, Torrance County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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 30, 6:00 PM MDT | Hail 2 | Tajique, 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1059 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 10:55 AM MDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 3:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora | 61 min |
| Sep 30, 3:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Socorro, Valencia | 63 min |
| Sep 30, 4:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 61 min |
| Sep 30, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Valencia | 58 min |
| Sep 30, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance | 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.