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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 12, 2002Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Apr 12, 2002, 9:03 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 27 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, 9:03 PM MDT (03:03 UTC)
Expired: Apr 12, 2002, 9:30 PM MDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

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
Apr 12, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS55 KABQ 130303
TORABQ
NMC037-130330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
903 PM MDT FRI APR 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM MDT

* AT 902 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF NARA VISA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER NARA VISA AT 915 PM MDT

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

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR
HEAR THE TORNADO. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT
SATURDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3574 10317 3575 10337 3549 10328 3541 10304
          3574 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, 8:51 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Union	24 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.