Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1996, 7:52 PM MDT for Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 38 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
- May 30, 1996, 7:52 PM MDT (01:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1996, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Curry County, NM, Quay County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 310152 TORABQ NMC009-310220- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 752 PM MDT THU MAY 30 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...NORTHERN QUAY COUNTY AT 752 PM MDT...A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY CANNON AFB DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 12 MILES EAST OF LOGAN MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25-30 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPALBE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL HAIL OR LARGER AND SHOULD MOVE EAST OF THE QUAY COUNTY LINE AROUND 830 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. KJ &
1 follow-up statement
000 TTAA00 KABQ 310154 COR TORABQ NMC037-310220- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 752 PM MDT THU MAY 30 1996 ...CORRECTED FOR HEADER INFO. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...NORTHERN QUAY COUNTY AT 752 PM MDT...A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY CANNON AFB DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 12 MILES EAST OF LOGAN MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25-30 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL HAIL OR LARGER AND SHOULD MOVE EAST OF THE QUAY COUNTY LINE AROUND 830 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. KJ &
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, May 30, 7:37 PM MDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
734 PM MDT THU MAY 30 1996
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0604 xPM 1 S FT SUMNER NM 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/30/96 DE BACA STATE POLICE REPORT
0702 PM 12 W LOGAN NM TORNADO
05/30/96 QUAY SPOTTER REPORTThe 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, 6:56 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay | 54 min |
| May 30, 7:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 58 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes in 1996
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.