Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 1, 1998, 5:49 PM MDT for Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 61 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
- Oct 1, 1998, 5:49 PM MDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 1998, 6:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1187 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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
Local storm report, Oct 1, 4:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
443 PM MDT THU OCT 01 1998
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0100 PM MARQUEZ NM 1.25 INCH HAIL
10/01/98 CIBOLA
0244 PM ALBUQUERQUE NM .75 INCH HAIL
10/01/98 BERNALILLO PEA AND DIME HAIL COVERING
GROUND IN DOWNTOWN
ALBUQUERQUEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 6:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 65 min |
| Oct 1, 12:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval | 62 min |
| Oct 1, 1:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 61 min |
| Oct 1, 1:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 60 min |
| Oct 1, 2:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 61 min |
| Oct 1, 2:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Socorro, Valencia | 45 min |
| Oct 1, 3:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 61 min |
| Oct 1, 3:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Santa Fe | 63 min |
| Oct 1, 3:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 61 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.