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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 30, 2001Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2001, 5:01 PM MDT for Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 44 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, 5:01 PM MDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2001, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Curry County, NM, 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 302301
TORABQ
NMC009-037-302345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  SOUTH CENTRAL QUAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 545 PM MDT

* AT 459 PM MDT...TRAINED SPOTTERS REPORTED A ROTATING WALL CLOUD 
  8 MILES NORTH OF RAGLAND...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF TUCUMCARI...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY 
  OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS.

* WHEATLAND AND GRADY ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM.

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 3506 10367 3493 10380 3459 10355 3486 10321

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, 4:48 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Quay	42 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.