Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1999, 5:20 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 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
- May 24, 1999, 5:20 PM MDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1999, 6:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Quay County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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
- 1434 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KABQ 242322 RRA TORABQ NMC037-250005- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 520 PM MDT MON MAY 24 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN QUAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 605 PM MDT * AT 517 PM MDT... STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 28 MILES NORTHEAST OF TUCUMCARI OR 7 MILES NORTH OF LOGAN... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN RANCH HOMES AND ON RURAL ROADS ARE THREATENED BY THIS TORNADO. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...SEEK SHELTER 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, May 24, 5:18 PM MDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
518 PM MDT MON MAY 24 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0240 PM BELEN NM 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/24/99 VALENCIA EMERGENCY COORDINATOR
REPORTS GUSTS TO 60 MPH
WITH CORE OF STORM TO THE
NORTHWEST.
0240 PM 15 S ALBUQUERQUE NM 1 INCH HAIL
05/24/99 VALENCIA FAA EMPLOYEE REPORTS HAIL
MOSTLY MARBLE WITH SOME
STONES TO 1 INCH IN
VALENCIA COUNTY 15S OF
ALBUQUERQUE.
0313 PM TOME NM 70 MPH TSTM GUST
05/24/99 VALENCIA EMERGENCY COORDINATOR
REPORTS TRAILER HOMES
OVERTURNED AND UNKNOWN
INJURIES NEAR TOME.
0319 PM 6 S LOS LUNAS NM 1 INCH HAIL
05/24/99 VALENCIA SPOTTER REPORTS
WINDSHIELDS BROKEN BY ONE
INCH HAIL NOW COVERING THE
ROAD TO FOUR INCHES SOUTH
OF LOS LUNAS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 12:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Juan | 64 min |
| May 24, 12:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Socorro | 49 min |
| May 24, 1:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Cibola, Valencia | 62 min |
| May 24, 2:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Valencia | 62 min |
| May 24, 3:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Valencia | 45 min |
| May 24, 3:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 59 min |
| May 24, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Socorro | 45 min |
| May 24, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Socorro, Valencia | 49 min |
| May 24, 5:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 63 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.