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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 2, 1999Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1999, 6:13 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 32 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: Jun 2, 1999, 6:13 PM MDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1999, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County Quay County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 2, 6:20 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Tucumcari, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 2, 4:30 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 3151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1277 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 11.6

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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, Jun 2, 4:34 PM MDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
434 PM MDT WED JUN 02 1999

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

0426 PM    MELROSE                   NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/99   CURRY                          CLOVIS FIRE DEPT REPORTED
                                          GOLFBALL HAIL

Local storm report, Jun 2, 5:15 PM MDT, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
515 PM MDT WED JUN 02 1999

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

0420 PM    TUCUMCARI                 NM   .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/99   QUAY                           PUBLIC REPORTED 3/4 INCH
                                          HAIL 5 MILES SE OF
                                          TUCUMCARI

0454 PM    ELIDA                     NM   TORNADO
06/02/99   ROOSEVELT                      TELEVISION WEATHER
                                          SPOTTERS FROM AMARILLO
                                          REPORTED TORNADO BRIEFLY
                                          TOUCHED DOWN 19 MILES SW
                                          OF ELIDA...IN NE CHAVES
                                          COUNTY

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.