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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 17, 2001Harding County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at May 17, 2001, 8:19 PM MDT for Harding County, New Mexico. It was in force for 56 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 17, 2001, 8:19 PM MDT (02:19 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 2001, 9:15 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Harding County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1564 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1564 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.6

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 6:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca61 min
May 17, 6:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion60 min
May 17, 6:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, San Miguel65 min
May 17, 6:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Harding67 min
May 17, 7:16 PM MDTTornado WarningABQHarding, San Miguel29 min
May 17, 7:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion54 min
May 17, 7:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, San Miguel58 min
May 17, 8:19 PM MDTTornado WarningABQHarding26 min
May 17, 8:38 PM MDTTornado WarningABQQuay, Union67 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001

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.