Funnel Cloud, Quay
- When
- August 4, 6:20 PM MST
- Where
- Quay County, San Jon
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 35.104, -103.550 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Tornado in New Mexico, August 4, 1998
1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 53 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:26 UTC.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Quay
- When
- August 4, 6:29 PM MST
- Where
- Quay County, San Jon
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 34.100, -103.330
A brief tornado touchdown was noted by several observers.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in California, August 4 to 6, 1998
- Flooding in Illinois, August 4, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, August 4, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, August 4 to 5, 1998
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, August 4, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, August 4, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 4, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, August 4, 1998
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 4, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Michigan, August 4, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, August 4, 1998
- Flood and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 4, 1998
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for New Mexico, 1998Warnings in New Mexico, August 1998
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5668731, 5668732.