Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Apr 12, 2002, 8:51 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 2002, 8:51 PM MDT (02:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2002, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Union 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 880 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 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 130251 TORABQ NMC059-130315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 850 PM MDT FRI APR 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 915 PM MDT * AT 844 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF AMISTAD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 7 MILES SOUTH OF AMISTAD AT 905 PM MDT 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. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. LAT...LON 3597 10336 3577 10336 3575 10303 3594 10303
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 6:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 28 min |
| Apr 12, 6:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 44 min |
| Apr 12, 6:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 52 min |
| Apr 12, 6:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 57 min |
| Apr 12, 7:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 30 min |
| Apr 12, 8:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 43 min |
| Apr 12, 9:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Quay | 27 min |
| Apr 12, 10:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 47 min |
| Apr 12, 11:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 10 min |
| Apr 13, 1:04 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 26 min |
| Apr 13, 1:54 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Quay | 36 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.