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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 30, 1998Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Oct 30, 1998, 3:15 PM MST for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 30, 1998, 3:15 PM MST (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Oct 30, 1998, 4:05 PM MST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County Roosevelt County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 30, 4:00 PM MST	Hail 1	Tolar, NM

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 30, 2:15 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 226 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 302214
TORABQ
NMC041-302305-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
315 PM MST FRI OCT 30 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 405 PM MST

* AT 313 PM MST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 40 MILES WEST OF PORTALES OR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  TOLAR... MOVING LNORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO ARE MOVING TOWARDS... TOLAR.


IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SEEK INDOOR SHELTER NOW!

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 30, 4:09 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	61 min
Oct 30, 8:54 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	46 min
Oct 30, 1:31 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	49 min
Oct 30, 1:57 PM MST	Tornado Warning	ABQ	De Baca	48 min
Oct 30, 2:42 PM MST	Tornado Warning	ABQ	De Baca	48 min
Oct 30, 2:55 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	50 min
Oct 30, 3:44 PM MST	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry	46 min
Oct 30, 3:52 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	43 min
Oct 30, 4:02 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	48 min
Oct 30, 4:30 PM MST	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry	45 min
Oct 30, 4:34 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	46 min
Oct 30, 4:54 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	46 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.