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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 13, 1999Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 1999, 7:01 AM MDT for Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 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
Apr 13, 1999, 7:01 AM MDT (13:01 UTC)
Expired
Apr 13, 1999, 8:00 AM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties Curry County, NM, Quay County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 1999-04-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 173 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 1999-04-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 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
173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
741 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 13, 6:45 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt60 min
Apr 13, 8:13 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry32 min
Apr 13, 8:51 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry44 min
Apr 13, 9:44 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry31 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.