Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 25, 1999Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1999, 3:49 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 46 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 25, 1999, 3:49 PM MDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1999, 4:35 PM MDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Union County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 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 1999-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 35 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 1999-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
35 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-359 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 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.

930 
WUUS1 KABQ 252150 RRA
SVRABQ

NMC059-252235-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
349 PM MDT FRI JUN 25 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 435 PM MDT

* AT 347 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  STORM WITH HIGH WIND AND LARGE HAIL 26 MILES NORTH OF CLAYTON OR
  14 MILES NORTH OF SENECA... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

THIS STORM IS A THREAT TO PEOPLE IN...REMOTE AREAS AND ON RURAL
ROADS.


HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE SUDDEN AND DANGEROUS
FLOODING IN ARROYOS...DITCHES AND OVER LOW WATER CROSSINGS.  DO NOT
DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADS OR WADE INTO FLOODED DITCHES.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 11:02 AM MDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026-260235-

NEW MEXICO/NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1102 AM MDT FRI JUN 25 1999

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE THIS
AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO...WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG
DOWNDRAFT WINDS THE MAIN THREAT.

SYNOPSIS...A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING EAST NEAR THE
COLORADO BORDER TODAY WILL CREATE A FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR STORMS
WHICH DEVELOP OVER THE SANGRE DE CRISTO/S TO STRENGTHEN RAPIDLY AS
THEY MOVE EAST OF I-25.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION...MAY BE REQUIRED BETWEEN 200 PM AND 1000 PM MDT.

COUNTIES WHERE SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED...
...EASTERN NEW MEXICO...
UNION       HARDING     QUAY
COLFAX      MORA        SAN MIGUEL
GUADALUPE

...CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...
NONE

...WESTERN AND NORTHERN NEW MEXICO...
NONE

FOR THE FAR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO OUTLOOK...USE PRODUCT LBBSPSMAF.
FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL/SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO OUTLOOK USE...LBBSPSELP.

FCSTR CSM
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 11:02 AM MDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026-260235-

NEW MEXICO/NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1102 AM MDT FRI JUN 25 1999

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE THIS
AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO...WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG
DOWNDRAFT WINDS THE MAIN THREAT.

SYNOPSIS...A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING EAST NEAR THE
COLORADO BORDER TODAY WILL CREATE A FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR STORMS
WHICH DEVELOP OVER THE SANGRE DE CRISTO/S TO STRENGTHEN RAPIDLY AS
THEY MOVE EAST OF I-25.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION...MAY BE REQUIRED BETWEEN 200 PM AND 1000 PM MDT.

COUNTIES WHERE SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED...
...EASTERN NEW MEXICO...
UNION       HARDING     QUAY
COLFAX      MORA        SAN MIGUEL
GUADALUPE

...CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...
NONE

...WESTERN AND NORTHERN NEW MEXICO...
NONE

FOR THE FAR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO OUTLOOK...USE PRODUCT LBBSPSMAF.
FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL/SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO OUTLOOK USE...LBBSPSELP.

FCSTR CSM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 6:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.