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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 29, 1989Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1989, 4:30 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1989, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1989, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Union County, NM

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 212 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1989-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 359 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1989-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
359 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KAMA 292231
SVRAMA
NMC059-292330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
530 PM CDT (430 PM MDT) THU JUN 29 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT (530 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
          ...SOUTHWESTERN UNION
 
AT 428 PM MDT (528 PM CDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN
AMARILLO DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED ABOUT 2 MILES NORTH OF
PASAMONTE NEW MEXICO.
 
MOVEMENT WAS A SLOW DRIFT TO THE SOUTH SOUTHWEST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH.X..DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
TWG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 3:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion66 min
Jun 29, 5:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.