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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 1, 1996Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1996, 8:47 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report 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: Jun 1, 1996, 8:47 PM MDT (02:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1996, 9:15 PM MDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 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
Jun 1, 9:12 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Pasamonte, 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 177 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1343 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 020244
TORABQ
NMC059-020315-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
847 PM MDT SAT JUN 1 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...SOUTHERN UNION COUNTY
 
AT 844 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES
NORTH OF HAYDEN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE
IN NEAR HAYDEN BY 9 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 8:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	58 min
Jun 1, 9:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	68 min
Jun 1, 10:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay, Union	56 min
Jun 2, 3:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	60 min
Jun 2, 5:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	56 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.