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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 2, 1999Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1999, 5:41 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 34 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, 5:41 PM MDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1999, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County Roosevelt County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 2, 5:45 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Portales, NM	Strong winds destroyed several barns just west of Portales.

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, 3:30 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 726 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -271 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 022340 RRA
TORABQ
NMC041-030015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
541 PM MDT WED JUN 2 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT

* AT 540 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND SPOTTER
  REPORTS INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  PORTALES... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO ARE MOVING TOWARDS...
  PORTALES. SEVERE STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A LARGE FUNNEL CLOUD
  ALMOST TO THE GROUND WITH THIS STORM.


IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SEEK INDOOR SHELTER NOW!

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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, 1 hour 7 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, 26 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

The 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, 5:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	35 min
Jun 2, 5:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	31 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.