Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 1, 1998, 9:56 PM MDT for Roosevelt 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, 9:56 PM MDT (03:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 1998, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Roosevelt County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
455 WUUS1 KABQ 020358 RRA SVRABQ NMC041-020500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 956 PM MDT THU OCT 1 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 1100 PM MDT * AT 953 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF PORTALES OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF DORA MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS THREATENED BY THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE... DORA... ROGERS... CAUSEY AND ARCH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF...GOLFBALLS...AND WIND GUSTS TO...AT LEAST 60 MPH ARE LIKELY. FLASH FLOODING IS ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.
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, 5 hours 13 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
ALBUQUERQUELocal storm report, Oct 1, 8:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
842 PM MDT THU OCT 01 1998
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0810 PM CLOVIS NM .88 INCH HAIL
10/01/98 CURRY OCCURRED BETWEEN 1930 AND
2000 MDT. REPORTED BY
SPOTTER FROM CHANNEL 7 IN
AMARILLO.
0830 PM CLOVIS NM FLOODING
10/01/98 CURRY 1.03 INCHES OF RAIN
BETWEEN 1930 AND 2000 MDT.
CARS FLOATING IN STREETS.The 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, 8:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 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 |
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.