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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 24, 1999Torrance County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1999, 5:52 PM MDT for Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 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 24, 1999, 5:52 PM MDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1999, 6:55 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Torrance County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 24, 1:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The text

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

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

Local storm report, May 24, 5:18 PM MDT, 34 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 12:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Juan64 min
May 24, 12:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro49 min
May 24, 1:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCibola, Valencia62 min
May 24, 2:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQValencia62 min
May 24, 3:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQValencia45 min
May 24, 3:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance59 min
May 24, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro45 min
May 24, 4:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro, Valencia49 min
May 24, 5:20 PM MDTTornado WarningABQQuay45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.