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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 24, 1999Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1999, 7:28 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 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, 7:28 PM MDT (01:28 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1999, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Roosevelt County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 259 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 826 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 186 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
826 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.9

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The text

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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, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe60 min
May 24, 7:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves64 min
May 24, 8:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe, Quay55 min
May 24, 8:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, Roosevelt55 min
May 24, 8:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry55 min
May 24, 8:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt46 min
May 25, 1:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves64 min
May 25, 1:58 PM MDTTornado WarningABQSandoval32 min
May 25, 2:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves62 min
May 25, 2:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca59 min
May 25, 2:26 PM MDTTornado WarningABQSandoval34 min
May 25, 2:45 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves45 min
May 25, 2:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe62 min
May 25, 3:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca64 min
May 25, 3:30 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves45 min
May 25, 3:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel62 min
May 25, 4:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion63 min
May 25, 5:25 PM MDTTornado WarningABQQuay50 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.