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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 3, 2000Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 2000, 2:15 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 2000, 2:15 PM MDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2000, 2:45 PM MDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Quay County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 602 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

954 
WFUS55 KABQ 032017
TORABQ
NMC037-032045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
215 PM MDT MON JUL 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL QUAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 245 PM MDT

* AT 212 PM MDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS 
OVER SAN JON...OR ABOUT 24 MILES EAST OF TUCUMCARI...MOVING 
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. STRONG WIND...LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES ARE 
POSSIBLE WITH ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.

* THE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER RURAL EASTERN QUAY COUNTY 

ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR STURDY SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3507 10347 3494 10331 3530 10279 3549 10302

KMV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 2:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	36 min
Jul 3, 3:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	52 min
Jul 3, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	60 min
Jul 3, 5:17 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Curry	118 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.