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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 30, 2001Harding County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2001, 3:15 PM MDT for Harding County, New Mexico. It was in force for 30 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: May 30, 2001, 3:15 PM MDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2001, 3:45 PM MDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Harding County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 30, 3:31 PM MDT	Hail 2.75	Mosquero, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 30, 2:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 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: 148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -411 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2031 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS55 KABQ 302116
TORABQ

NMC021-302145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
315 PM MDT WED MAY 30 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL HARDING COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 345 PM MDT

* AT 315 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED 
  TO INDICATE A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION ABOUT 
  15 MILES NORTH OF MOSQUERO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  LAW 
  ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND TRAINED SPOTTERS REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS 
  FROM THIS SEVERE STORM. 

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...LEAVE AUTOMOBILES 
AND MOBILE HOMES. 

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3610 10396 3598 10413 3562 10381 3577 10358

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 1:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	51 min
May 30, 1:47 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding	43 min
May 30, 2:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	51 min
May 30, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	45 min
May 30, 3:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	60 min
May 30, 3:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	41 min
May 30, 4:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	67 min
May 30, 4:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	39 min
May 30, 4:48 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Quay	42 min
May 30, 5:01 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	44 min
May 30, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	61 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.