Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1999, 5:00 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 35 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
- Jun 2, 1999, 5:00 PM MDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1999, 5:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chaves County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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, 3:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 1289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 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 022259 RRA TORABQ NMC005-022335- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 500 PM MDT WED JUN 2 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CHAVES COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 535 PM MDT * AT 458 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 49 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROSWELL OR 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF ELKINS... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN WITH THIS STORM. PEOPLE IN RANCH HOMES AND ON RURAL ROADS ARE THREATENED BY THIS TORNADO. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...SEEK SHELJTER IMMEDIATELY IN NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDINGS OR FIND A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. &
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
Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:34 PM MDT, 26 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 HAILThe office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 35 min |
| Jun 2, 4:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 5:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 31 min |
| Jun 2, 5:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 34 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 1999Every tornado warning in 1999Tornadoes 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.