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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 25, 1999De Baca County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1999, 8:30 PM MDT for De Baca County, New Mexico. It was in force for 20 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, 8:30 PM MDT (02:30 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 1999, 8:50 PM MDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County De Baca County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 267 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: 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, 3 hours 23 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, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 7:30 PM MDT, 1 hour before

NMZ019-260145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
730 PM MDT TUE MAY 25 1999

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 327 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CHAVES COUNTY.
THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED ON TO THE NORTHEAST.

CHJ

Special weather statement, May 25, 7:30 PM MDT, 1 hour before

NMZ019-260145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
730 PM MDT TUE MAY 25 1999

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 327 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CHAVES COUNTY.
THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED ON TO THE NORTHEAST.

CHJ

Local storm report, May 25, 7:32 PM MDT, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
732 PM MDT TUE MAY 25 1999

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

0630 PM    5 W PORTALES              NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   ROOSEVELT                      REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          SPOTTER

0632 PM    GLENRIO                   NM   .75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   QUAY                           OBSERVER REPORTED PEA TO
                                          DIME SIZE HAIL

0634 PM    3 W PORTALES              NM   1 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   ROOSEVELT                      REPORTED BY RETIRED NWS
                                          EMPLOYEE

0648 PM    PORTALES                  NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   ROOSEVELT                      GOLFBALL HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          POLICE DEPT.

0650 PM    DILIA                     NM   .75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   GUADALUPE

Local storm report, May 25, 7:32 PM MDT, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
732 PM MDT TUE MAY 25 1999

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

0630 PM    5 W PORTALES              NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   ROOSEVELT                      REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          SPOTTER

0632 PM    GLENRIO                   NM   .75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   QUAY                           OBSERVER REPORTED PEA TO
                                          DIME SIZE HAIL

0634 PM    3 W PORTALES              NM   1 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   ROOSEVELT                      REPORTED BY RETIRED NWS
                                          EMPLOYEE

0648 PM    PORTALES                  NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   ROOSEVELT                      GOLFBALL HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          POLICE DEPT.

0650 PM    DILIA                     NM   .75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99   GUADALUPE

The office that day

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, 7:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	64 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

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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.