Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Albuquerque, NM
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 65 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.