Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Albuquerque, NM
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.
- 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
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 EMCLocal 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 EMCLocal storm report, May 25, 6:16 PM MDT, 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 6:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 33 min |
| May 25, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 63 min |
| May 25, 6:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 50 min |
| May 25, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 20 min |
| May 25, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 35 min |
| May 25, 9:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 29 min |
| May 25, 9:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 29 min |
| May 25, 10:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 25 min |
| May 26, 2:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 49 min |
| May 26, 3:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 46 min |
| May 26, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 44 min |
| May 26, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 46 min |
| May 26, 5:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 35 min |
| May 26, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 23 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.