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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 30, 2001Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2001, 4:48 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 42 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: May 30, 2001, 4:48 PM MDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2001, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Quay County, NM

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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 302248
TORABQ
NMC037-302330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT

* AT 443 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AND FUNNEL
  CLOUDS 7 MILES WEST OF NARA VISA.  THE SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING 
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH AND COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY MOMENT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES. MOVE
INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS AND OUTSIDE WALLS.

LAT...LON 3565 10329 3546 10335 3519 10303 3544 10303

KJ

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, 3:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding	30 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.