Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 325
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 24, 1999, 2:30 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1999, 2:30 PM MDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1999, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Chaves County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Otero County, NM, Sierra County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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.
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 3:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 49 min |
| May 24, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 44 min |
| May 24, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 60 min |
| May 24, 4:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 49 min |
| May 24, 5:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 47 min |
| May 24, 6:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 48 min |
| May 24, 6:52 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | Otero | 48 min |
| May 24, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 47 min |
| May 24, 7:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 59 min |
| May 24, 7:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 64 min |
| May 24, 7:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 52 min |
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bernalillo, Colfax, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln and 10 more | 7 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.