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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 13, 2002Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Sep 13, 2002, 2:41 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 34 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 13, 2002, 2:41 PM MDT (20:41 UTC)
Expired
Sep 13, 2002, 3:15 PM MDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chaves County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 220 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2002-09-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 172 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2002-09-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1120 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

218 
WFUS55 KABQ 132041
TORABQ
NMC005-132115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
239 PM MDT FRI SEP 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 315 PM MDT

* AT 236 PM MDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
  MESA...OR ABOUT 44 MILES NORTH OF ROSWELL...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER MESA AT 245 PM MDT

LAT...LON 3399 10485 3386 10472 3375 10437 3399 10438

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 12, 6:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSandoval40 min
Sep 12, 6:26 PM MDTTornado WarningABQSandoval49 min
Sep 13, 2:41 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves34 min
Sep 13, 2:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca61 min
Sep 13, 3:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves59 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.