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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 30, 1996Harding County, Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1996, 6:56 PM MDT for Harding County, Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 54 min. 2 reports 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: May 30, 1996, 6:56 PM MDT (00:56 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1996, 7:50 PM MDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

Counties Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 30, 7:02 PM MDT	Tornado F0	Logan, NM
May 30, 7:30 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Mc Alister, 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 240 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -264 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1344 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 218 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 310055
TORABQ
NMC021-037-310150-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
656 PM MDT THU MAY 30 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 750 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

   ...SOUTHERN HARDING COUNTY

IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

   ...NORTHERN QUAY COUNTY
 
AT 655 PM MDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY
CANNON AFB DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTERS 12 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF
LOGAN MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE
SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...LOGAN UTE DAM
AIRPORT...LOGAN AND SAND SPRINGS.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A
REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
KJ
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 6:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	60 min
May 30, 6:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	60 min
May 30, 7:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	58 min
May 30, 7:52 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	38 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.