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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 22, 1999Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1999, 6:30 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 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
May 22, 1999, 6:30 PM MDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1999, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Roosevelt County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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 00:00Z on 1999-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 517 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 00:00Z on 1999-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 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
517 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2773 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 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.

999 
WUUS1 KABQ 230031 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC041-230120-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
630 PM MDT SAT MAY 22 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT

* AT 628 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 36 MILES SOUTH OF PORTALES OR 12 MILES WEST
  OF MILNESAND... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

THIS STORM IS A THREAT TO PEOPLE IN SMALL RURAL COMMUNITIES AND
VILLAGES.

PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD SEEK SHELTER.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 6:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe48 min
May 22, 7:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe40 min
May 23, 3:38 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSandoval3 hr
May 23, 3:46 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSandoval3 hr

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.