Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 30, 1998, 5:51 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, Santa Fe County, Torrance 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 30, 1998, 5:51 PM MDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 1998, 6:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 6:00 PM MDT | Hail 2 | Tajique, NM | |
| Sep 30, 6:28 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Mc Intosh, 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
195 WUUS1 KABQ 302352 RRA SVRABQ NMC001-049-057-010055- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 551 PM MDT WED SEP 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN BERNALILLO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO SOUTHERN SANTA FE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO NORTHWESTERN TORRANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 655 PM MDT * AT 550 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WITH HIGH WIND AND LARGE HAIL 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EDGEWOOD MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS THREATENED BY THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE... EDGEWOOD... MORIARTY AND STANLEY. * THIS STORM WILL CROSS I-40 NEAR EDGEWOOD BY 615 PM. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. FOR SHELTER...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. CSM
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, 4:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln, Torrance | 61 min |
| Sep 30, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Valencia | 58 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.