Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1998, 6:37 PM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 33 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
- Jun 7, 1998, 6:37 PM MDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1998, 7:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Curry County, NM
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 6:45 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Clovis, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 459 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
044 WFUS1 KABQ 080038 RRA TORABQ NMC009-080110- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 637 PM MDT SUN JUN 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 710 PM MDT * AT 635 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF CLOVIS OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF TEXICO MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. AT 618 PM MDT...A SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO IN NORTHWEST CLOVIS. * THIS TORNADO IS A THREAT TO PEOPLE IN RANCH HOMES AND RURAL COMMUNITIES. 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, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 49 min |
| Jun 7, 6:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Curry | 33 min |
| Jun 7, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 63 min |
| Jun 7, 7:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 46 min |
| Jun 7, 9:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 31 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.