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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 1, 1998Lincoln County, New Mexico

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1998-10-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 183 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1998-10-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 151 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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
                                          ALBUQUERQUE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 30, 6:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance65 min
Oct 1, 12:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCibola, McKinley, Sandoval62 min
Oct 1, 1:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance61 min
Oct 1, 1:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSandoval60 min
Oct 1, 2:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo61 min
Oct 1, 2:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro, Valencia45 min
Oct 1, 3:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSandoval61 min
Oct 1, 3:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSanta Fe63 min
Oct 1, 3:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel61 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.