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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 23, 2000San Juan County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Oct 23, 2000, 12:18 PM MDT for San Juan County, New Mexico. It was in force for 27 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
Oct 23, 2000, 12:18 PM MDT (18:18 UTC)
Expired
Oct 23, 2000, 12:45 PM MDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County San Juan County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 12:00Z on 2000-10-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 120 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 12:00Z on 2000-10-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 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.

000 
WFUS55 KABQ 231819
TORABQ

NMC045-231845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1218 PM MDT MON OCT 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SAN JUAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 1245 PM MDT

* AT 1217 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 19 MILES 
SOUTHWEST   OF FARMINGTON ALONG STATE ROAD 371...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER RURAL CENTRAL SAN JUAN COUNTY 

ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR STURDY SHELTER.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM MDT MONDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3651 10849 3639 10834 3675 10780 3694 10804

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 23, 6:36 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe54 min
Oct 23, 7:25 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, Quay, San Miguel65 min
Oct 23, 7:51 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQGuadalupe, Quay, San Miguel114 min
Oct 23, 8:25 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay, San Miguel50 min
Oct 23, 10:55 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Quay65 min
Oct 23, 11:11 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt64 min
Oct 23, 12:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt61 min
Oct 23, 12:44 PM MDTTornado WarningABQSan Juan31 min
Oct 23, 1:14 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt2 hr
Oct 23, 1:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Juan52 min
Oct 23, 3:10 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQChaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Quay and 3 more3 hr
Oct 23, 4:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt50 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.