Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1998, 8:42 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 48 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
- May 26, 1998, 8:42 PM MDT (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1998, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 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 02:44 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 26, 4:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 2356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
608 WUUS1 KABQ 270243 RRA SVRABQ NMC005-270330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 842 PM MDT TUE MAY 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN AND CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 930 PM MDT * AT 838 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES NORTH OF ROSWELL OR 16 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF BITTER LAKES WILDLIFE REFUGE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * PEOPLE IN REMOTE OR RURAL AREAS AND MOTORISTS ALONG HIGHWAY 285 ARE THREATENED BY THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. MOVE INDOORS AND AWAY FROM AREAS WHERE LOOSE ITEMS COULD BECOME FLYING DEBRIS. BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, May 26, 7:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
717 PM MDT TUE MAY 26 1998
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0435 PM KENNA NM
05/26/98 ROOSEVELT FUNNEL CLOUD EAST OF KENNA
0601 PM MILNESAND NM .5 INCH HAIL
05/26/98 ROOSEVELT SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS
REPORTED WEST OF MILNESAND
DURING THE PAST HOUR
0606 PM 25 SW TUCUMCARI NM 1 INCH HAIL
05/26/98 QUAY
0606 PM 10 E TUCUMCARI NM .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/98 QUAY DURING THE PAST HOUR ALONG
I-40
0629 PM LOGAN NM .88 INCH HAIL
05/26/98 QUAY
0635 PM LOGAN NM 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/26/98 QUAYLocal storm report, May 26, 7:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
717 PM MDT TUE MAY 26 1998
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0435 PM KENNA NM
05/26/98 ROOSEVELT FUNNEL CLOUD EAST OF KENNA
0601 PM MILNESAND NM .5 INCH HAIL
05/26/98 ROOSEVELT SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS
REPORTED WEST OF MILNESAND
DURING THE PAST HOUR
0606 PM 25 SW TUCUMCARI NM 1 INCH HAIL
05/26/98 QUAY
0606 PM 10 E TUCUMCARI NM .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/98 QUAY DURING THE PAST HOUR ALONG
I-40
0629 PM LOGAN NM .88 INCH HAIL
05/26/98 QUAY
0635 PM LOGAN NM 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/26/98 QUAYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 6:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 48 min |
| May 26, 6:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 48 min |
| May 26, 6:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 47 min |
| May 26, 8:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 39 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.