Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 1, 1998, 8:01 PM MDT for De Baca County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 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, 8:01 PM MDT (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 1998, 9:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County De Baca County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
018 WUUS1 KABQ 020203 RRA SVRABQ NMC011-020305- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 801 PM MDT THU OCT 1 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DE BACA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 905 PM MDT * AT 759 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF FORT SUMNER OR NEAR DUNLAP MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THIS STORM IS A THREAT TO PEOPLE IN RANCH HOMES AND RURAL COMMUNITIES. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF...GOLFBALLS...AND WIND GUSTS TO...AT LEAST 60 MPH ARE LIKELY. SEEK SHELTER INDOORS.
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, 3 hours 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 7:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 64 min |
| Oct 1, 9:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 61 min |
| Oct 1, 9:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 88 min |
| Oct 1, 9:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.