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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 25, 1996Guadalupe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1996, 8:04 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 46 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
Jul 25, 1996, 8:04 PM MDT (02:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1996, 8:50 PM MDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Guadalupe County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1996-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 243 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1996-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 260205 RRA
TORABQ
NMC019-260250-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
804 PM MDT THU JUL 25 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 850 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

   ...SOUTHWESTERN GUADALUPE COUNTY
 
AT 804 PM MDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR
3 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF VAUGHN MOVING SOUTH AT 10-15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...VAUGHN.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK
SAFETY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK
REFUGE IN A CULVERT...DITCH ZOR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH
YOUR HANDS.
 
KJ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 6:20 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSan Miguel2 hr
Jul 25, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel60 min
Jul 25, 7:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, Torrance60 min
Jul 26, 3:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora40 min
Jul 26, 3:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax64 min
Jul 26, 4:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora56 min
Jul 26, 4:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln48 min
Jul 26, 4:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel55 min
Jul 26, 5:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion67 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.