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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 12, 2002Sandoval County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Sep 12, 2002, 3:36 PM MDT for Sandoval County, New Mexico. It was in force for 39 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: Sep 12, 2002, 3:36 PM MDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: Sep 12, 2002, 4:15 PM MDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sandoval County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 643 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 761 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 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.

500 
WFUS55 KABQ 122136
TORABQ
NMC043-122215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
336 PM MDT THU SEP 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SANDOVAL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 415 PM MDT

* AT 332 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAN YSIDRO...OR ABOUT 29 MILES SOUTH
  OF CUBA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  4 MILES NORTH OF SAN YSIDRO AT 410 PM MDT
  OVER JEMEZ PUEBLO...7 MILES NORTH OF ZIA PUEBLO AT 415 PM MDT

TAKE COVER NOW LEAVE MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. IF POSSIBLE...MOVE
TO A BASEMENT. OTHERWISE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND OUTSIDE WALLS.

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW

LAT...LON 3572 10701 3552 10703 3548 10656 3573 10656

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 12, 1:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	28 min
Sep 12, 2:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	42 min
Sep 12, 3:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	43 min
Sep 12, 3:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	45 min
Sep 12, 4:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	35 min
Sep 12, 4:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	42 min
Sep 12, 5:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	41 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.