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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 7, 1998Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1998, 4:51 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 49 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: Jun 7, 1998, 4:51 PM MDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 1998, 5:40 PM MDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County Quay County, NM

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 7, 4:30 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 295 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 302 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

470 
WFUS1 KABQ 072252 RRA
TORABQ
NMC037-072340-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
451 PM MDT SUN JUN 7 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN QUAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 540 PM MDT

* AT 450 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 41 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF TUCUMCARI OR 10 MILES WEST
  OF HOUSE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED BY THIS TORNADO ARE... HOUSE...
  MCALISTER AND RAGLAND.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND
MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR
CULVERT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 12:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	32 min
Jun 7, 4:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	48 min
Jun 7, 4:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Roosevelt	45 min
Jun 7, 4:41 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	De Baca	44 min
Jun 7, 5:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	49 min
Jun 7, 5:11 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Quay	49 min
Jun 7, 5:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.