Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 8, 1990Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 8:43 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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 8, 1990, 8:43 PM MDT (02:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1990, 9:45 PM MDT
In force: 62 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 8, 8:43 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Union, NM
Jun 8, 9:08 PM MDT	Hail 1.5	Union, 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. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 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-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: 630 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KAMA 090245 RRA
SVRAMA
NMC059-090345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
943 PM CDT (843 PM MDT) FRI JUN 8 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT (945 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
          ...NORTHERN UNION
 
AT 843 PM MDT..THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN CLAYTON REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE
HAIL IN MT. DORA..20 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLAYTON. THIS THUNDERSTORM
CONTINUES MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY H EAVY 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.
SC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	45 min
Jun 8, 7:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1990 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.