Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at May 1, 1999, 5:28 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 27 min. 2 reports 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 1, 1999, 5:28 PM MDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 1999, 5:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Quay County, NM
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 5:30 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Tucumcari, NM | |
| May 1, 5:30 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 4:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 012329 TORABQ NMC037-012355- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 528 PM MDT SAT MAY 1 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN QUAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 555 PM MDT * AT 527 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND POSSIBLE TORNADO 25 MILES EAST OF TUCUMCARI OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOGAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM IS A THREAT TO PEOPLE IN RANCH HOMES AND RURAL COMMUNITIES ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF U.S. HIGHWAY 54 BETWEEN LOGAN AND NARA VISA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SEEK I NDOOR SHELTER NOW! KJ/CSM
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 1, 3:05 PM MDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
NMZ002>005-020000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 305 PM MDT SAT MAY 1 1999 ...HEAVY MOUNTAIN SNOW AND FLOODING ACROSS NORTHERN NEW MEXICO... HEAVY SNOW WAS FALLING ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON. MOST LOCATIONS ABOVE 7500 FEET HAD RECEIVED 3 TO 6 INCHES OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING...WITH LOCALIZED AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 FEET ABOVE 9000 FEET IN THE SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS INCLUDING THE UPPER RED RIVER VALLEY. SNOW DEPTHS AS OF 300 PM... RED RIVER 6 INCHES BLACK LAKE (SOUTH OF ANGEL FIRE) 6 INCHES BRAZOS LODGE (SOUTH OF CHAMA)... 3 INCHES ANOTHER HARD HIT AREA WAS NORTHERN COLFAX COUNTY. LAKE MALOYA LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF RATON RECEIVED 6 TO 8 INCHES OF SNOW SINCE 700 AM...WHILE 2 TO 3 INCHES OF SLUSH ACCUMULATED IN THE RATON AREA BY EARLY AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION TO THE SNOW...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN REPORTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN RIO ARRIBA...NORTHERN SANTA FE...SOUTHERN TAOS AND WESTERN MORA COUNTIES. RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS AGGRAVATING THE FLOODING PROBLEMS...WITH SEVERAL OF THE FEEDER STREAMS AT BANKFULL. MUDSLIDES HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED. THE UPPER LOW RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WET WEATHER WAS LOCATED NEAR GRANTS AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD...EVENTUALLY REACHING EASTERN COLORADO SUNDAY MORNING. KJ/GB
Special weather statement, May 1, 3:05 PM MDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
NMZ002>005-020000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 305 PM MDT SAT MAY 1 1999 ...HEAVY MOUNTAIN SNOW AND FLOODING ACROSS NORTHERN NEW MEXICO... HEAVY SNOW WAS FALLING ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON. MOST LOCATIONS ABOVE 7500 FEET HAD RECEIVED 3 TO 6 INCHES OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING...WITH LOCALIZED AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 FEET ABOVE 9000 FEET IN THE SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS INCLUDING THE UPPER RED RIVER VALLEY. SNOW DEPTHS AS OF 300 PM... RED RIVER 6 INCHES BLACK LAKE (SOUTH OF ANGEL FIRE) 6 INCHES BRAZOS LODGE (SOUTH OF CHAMA)... 3 INCHES ANOTHER HARD HIT AREA WAS NORTHERN COLFAX COUNTY. LAKE MALOYA LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF RATON RECEIVED 6 TO 8 INCHES OF SNOW SINCE 700 AM...WHILE 2 TO 3 INCHES OF SLUSH ACCUMULATED IN THE RATON AREA BY EARLY AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION TO THE SNOW...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN REPORTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN RIO ARRIBA...NORTHERN SANTA FE...SOUTHERN TAOS AND WESTERN MORA COUNTIES. RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS AGGRAVATING THE FLOODING PROBLEMS...WITH SEVERAL OF THE FEEDER STREAMS AT BANKFULL. MUDSLIDES HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED. THE UPPER LOW RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WET WEATHER WAS LOCATED NEAR GRANTS AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD...EVENTUALLY REACHING EASTERN COLORADO SUNDAY MORNING. KJ/GB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 23 min |
| May 1, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 30 min |
| May 1, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.