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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 24, 1999Guadalupe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1999, 6:45 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 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, 6:45 PM MDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1999, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County Guadalupe County, NM

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 24, 1:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 377 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 567 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	62 min
May 24, 7:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	64 min
May 24, 8:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay	55 min
May 24, 8:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	55 min
May 24, 8:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	55 min
May 24, 8:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	46 min
May 25, 1:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	64 min
May 25, 1:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	32 min
May 25, 2:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	62 min
May 25, 2:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	59 min
May 25, 2:26 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	34 min
May 25, 2:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	45 min
May 25, 2:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	62 min
May 25, 3:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	64 min
May 25, 3:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	45 min
May 25, 3:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	62 min
May 25, 4:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	63 min
May 25, 5:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Quay	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1999 Every 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.