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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 25, 1999Guadalupe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1999, 7:01 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 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 25, 1999, 7:01 PM MDT (01:01 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1999, 8:05 PM MDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Guadalupe County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 284 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 1999-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 641 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1999-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 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
641 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1299 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
241 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
4.8

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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 25, 5:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
507 PM MDT TUE MAY 25 1999

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0855 PM    FLOYD                     NM   1 INCH HAIL
05/24/99   ROOSEVELT                      QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY FLOYD VFD

0915 PM    PORTALES                  NM   1 INCH HAIL
05/24/99   ROOSEVELT                      QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY PORTALES PD

0213 PM    ROSWELL                   NM   .75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   CHAVES                         DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED 6
                                          MILES W OF ROSWELL BY EMC

0219 PM    CUBA                      NM   TORNADO
05/25/99   SANDOVAL                       TORNADO REPORTED BY
                                          FARMINGTON DISPATCH 5W OF
                                          CUBA

0305 PM    YESO                      NM   1 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   DE BACA                        ONE INCH HAIL FROM 1500 -
                                          1510 5 MILES SE OF YESO

0326 PM    ROSWELL INDUSTRIAL AIR CN NM   TORNADO
05/25/99   CHAVES                         REPORTS FROM ROSWELL PD
                                          AND NWS EMPLOYEE OF
                                          TORNADO BETWEEN 1 AND 10
                                          MILES SOUTH OF AIRPORT

0400 PM    HAGERMAN                  NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   CHAVES                         GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY ROSWELL EMC

0404 PM    DEXTER                    NM   .75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   CHAVES                         DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BETWEEN 1600 - 1608 BY
                                          ROSWELL EMC
Local storm report, May 25, 5:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
507 PM MDT TUE MAY 25 1999

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0855 PM    FLOYD                     NM   1 INCH HAIL
05/24/99   ROOSEVELT                      QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY FLOYD VFD

0915 PM    PORTALES                  NM   1 INCH HAIL
05/24/99   ROOSEVELT                      QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY PORTALES PD

0213 PM    ROSWELL                   NM   .75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   CHAVES                         DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED 6
                                          MILES W OF ROSWELL BY EMC

0219 PM    CUBA                      NM   TORNADO
05/25/99   SANDOVAL                       TORNADO REPORTED BY
                                          FARMINGTON DISPATCH 5W OF
                                          CUBA

0305 PM    YESO                      NM   1 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   DE BACA                        ONE INCH HAIL FROM 1500 -
                                          1510 5 MILES SE OF YESO

0326 PM    ROSWELL INDUSTRIAL AIR CN NM   TORNADO
05/25/99   CHAVES                         REPORTS FROM ROSWELL PD
                                          AND NWS EMPLOYEE OF
                                          TORNADO BETWEEN 1 AND 10
                                          MILES SOUTH OF AIRPORT

0400 PM    HAGERMAN                  NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   CHAVES                         GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY ROSWELL EMC

0404 PM    DEXTER                    NM   .75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   CHAVES                         DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BETWEEN 1600 - 1608 BY
                                          ROSWELL EMC
Local storm report, May 25, 6:16 PM MDT, 45 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 6:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay33 min
May 25, 6:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt63 min
May 25, 6:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca50 min
May 25, 8:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca20 min
May 25, 8:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt35 min
May 25, 9:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt29 min
May 25, 9:51 PM MDTTornado WarningABQRoosevelt29 min
May 25, 10:20 PM MDTTornado WarningABQRoosevelt25 min
May 26, 2:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln49 min
May 26, 3:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel46 min
May 26, 4:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt44 min
May 26, 4:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt46 min
May 26, 5:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay35 min
May 26, 5:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding23 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.