Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1999, 10:49 PM MDT for De Baca County, Guadalupe County, Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 66 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 28, 1999, 10:49 PM MDT (04:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1999, 11:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lincoln County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 4191 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 290451 TORABQ NMC011-019-027-290555- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1049 PM MDT MON JUN 28 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME WESTERN DE BACA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO SOUTHWESTERN GUADALUPE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 1155 PM MDT * AT 1048 PM MDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 48 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANTA ROSA OR 16 MILES SOUTH OF VAUGHN... MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM AND TORNADO ARE MOVING OVER...SPARSELY POPULATED AREAS. WHENj A TORNADO THREATENS...MOVE TO A STORM SHELTER OR INTERIOR ROOM INSIDE YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR STURDY SHELTER OR FIND A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOURSELF. 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
Local storm report, Jun 28, 6:53 PM MDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
653 PM MDT MON JUN 28 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0535 PM LEVY NM 2 INCH HAIL
06/28/99 MORA BETWEEN GOLFBALL AND
TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL IN
LEVY
0540 PM DILIA NM 1 INCH HAIL
06/28/99 GUADALUPE QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN DILIA
0545 PM WAGON MOUND NM 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/28/99 MORA GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 2 MILES
NORTH OF WAGON MOUNDLocal storm report, Jun 28, 8:02 PM MDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
802 PM MDT MON JUN 28 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0710 PM SANTA ROSA NM 1.5 INCH HAIL
06/28/99 GUADALUPE PING-PONG BALL HAIL 20
SOUTH OF SANTA ROSA - JUST
NORTH OF GUADALUPE BORDER
0726 PM CONCHAS DAM NM 1 INCH HAIL
06/28/99 SAN MIGUEL PEA TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
JUST SOUTH OF TOWN OF
CONCHAS
0730 PM CONCHAS DAM NM 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/28/99 SAN MIGUEL GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN TOWN
OF CONCHASLocal storm report, Jun 28, 8:41 PM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
841 PM MDT MON JUN 28 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0800 PM YESO NM 2.5 INCH HAIL
06/28/99 DE BACA GOLF BALL TO TENNIS BALL
SIZE HAIL IN YESO
0830 PM PINTADA NM 1 INCH HAIL
06/28/99 GUADALUPE QUARTER SIZE HAIL 10 MILES
WEST OF PINTADAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 6:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln | 63 min |
| Jun 28, 6:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 7:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 7:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel | 63 min |
| Jun 28, 7:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 8:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Torrance | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 8:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 8:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 61 min |
| Jun 28, 9:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel | 61 min |
| Jun 28, 9:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Lincoln, Torrance | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 9:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 10:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 12:43 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.