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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 4, 2002San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2002, 4:14 PM MDT for San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 31 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: Jun 4, 2002, 4:14 PM MDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2002, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County San Miguel County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 4073 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 958 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 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.

002 
WFUS55 KABQ 042214
TORABQ
NMC047-042245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
414 PM MDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL SAN MIGUEL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 445 PM MDT

* AT 411 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER SOUTHEASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF TUCUMCARI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER RURAL EASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY 

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.

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

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3531 10413 3518 10401 3534 10365 3557 10383

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 12:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	42 min
Jun 4, 1:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	27 min
Jun 4, 1:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	40 min
Jun 4, 2:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	53 min
Jun 4, 2:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	49 min
Jun 4, 2:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	56 min
Jun 4, 2:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Torrance	66 min
Jun 4, 2:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	54 min
Jun 4, 3:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	42 min
Jun 4, 3:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	32 min
Jun 4, 3:46 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel	29 min
Jun 4, 4:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	49 min
Jun 4, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	45 min
Jun 4, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel	58 min
Jun 4, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay	45 min
Jun 4, 5:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	51 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.