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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 26, 1999Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1999, 2:11 PM MDT for Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1999, 2:11 PM MDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1999, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 26, 2:30 PM MDTHail 0.75Picacho, NM

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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 26, 9:32 AM MDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 26, 9:32 AM MDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 26, 10:00 AM MDT, 4 hours 11 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, 7:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe64 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, 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

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.