Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 54, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1999, 6:24 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1999, 6:24 PM MDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1999, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 193 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 6:35 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Carlsbad, 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 nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 4295 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 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 KMAF 300026 RRA TORMAF NMC015-300115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND-ODESSA TX 624 PM MDT SAT MAY 29 1999 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 715 PM MDT * AT 623 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARLSBAD...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SPOTTERS REPORT TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARLSBAD. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE... OTIS...LOVING...CARLSBAD NORTH AND CARLSBAD. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS IF YOU SPOT A TORNADO...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3252 10429 3239 10443 3213 10416 3236 10395 & SD
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.
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at May 29, 1:31 PM MDT, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 1:31 PM MDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 231 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 1999 VISIBLE IMAGERY INDICATES REMNANT MVC LIFTING NE TOWARD LOW ROLLING PLAINS ATTM WITH LOW/MID CLOUDS LINGERING ACROSS NRN CWA. FARTHER S FULL INSOLATION IS ONGOING WITH ATMOS DESTABILIZING WITH CU IN THE DAVIS MTNS. SATELLITE DERIVED PRODUCTS INDICATES CAP STILL IN PLACE WHILE 18Z RUC LIS HAVE DROPPED TO MINUS 4 TO 6. 18Z RUC SUPPORTS BEST CAPES/LIS PECOS/TERRELL COUNTIES WHERE TEMPS ARE APPROACHING M80S. FCST WILL REFLECT FAVORED AREA FOR CONVECTION BEING FROM NEAR PECOS RIVER S TO NEAR MTNS WITH 85H THETA-E RIDGE AXIS NOTED THERE. DRYING ACROSS MTNS PER WATER VAPOR AND 18Z RUC FCST SOUNDINGS SUGGEST LESS DEVELOPMENT/INTENSITY THAN LAST NIGHT. FAVOR IDEA OF LETTING FFA EXPIRE AT 2130Z. IF TSTMS DO BLOSSOM S AND MTNS WOULD MOST LIKELY HAVE TO ISSUE FFA. MID LEVEL FLOW FINALLY BEGINS TO STRENGTHEN TMW WITH WEAK LEE TROF FORMING. AS A RESULT LOW LEVEL MSTR GRADIENT TO EVOLVE EWD AND WILL LEAVE POPS OUT OF MTNS. MID LEVEL RIDGE INTENSIFIES ACROSS MEXICO AND BUILDS NWD INTO W TX MONDAY SIGNALING AN END TO POPS AS WELL HAVE TO CONTEND WITH M90S-100 AND STRENGTHENING CINH THRU WEDNESDAY. MAF 61/92/64/95 20/20/20/- CNM 60/93/62/96 20/10/10/- MRF 52/86/55/89 20/-/-/- P07 66/94/67/97 30/20/20/- GPM
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.