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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Oct 23, 2000, 12:44 PM MDT for San Juan County, New Mexico. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 23, 2000, 12:44 PM MDT (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 2000, 1:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County San Juan County, NM
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 227 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 12:51 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | La Plata, 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1210 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KABQ 231844 TORABQ NMC045-231915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1244 PM MDT MON OCT 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL SAN JUAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 115 PM MDT * AT 1236 PM MDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN NEAR FARMINGTON AIRPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE... OVER NORTHERN SAN JUAN COUNTY AT 1236 PM MDT LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR FARMINGTON AIRPORT. SEVERE STORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OF AT LEAST 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. SEEK INDOOR SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS! LAT...LON 3678 10836 3669 10817 3736 10759 3750 10788
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 6:36 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 54 min |
| Oct 23, 7:25 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel | 65 min |
| Oct 23, 7:51 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel | 114 min |
| Oct 23, 8:25 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay, San Miguel | 50 min |
| Oct 23, 10:55 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 65 min |
| Oct 23, 11:11 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 64 min |
| Oct 23, 12:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 61 min |
| Oct 23, 12:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | San Juan | 27 min |
| Oct 23, 1:14 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 2 hr |
| Oct 23, 1:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Juan | 52 min |
| Oct 23, 3:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Quay and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 50 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.