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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 3, 2003Harding County, San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2003, 5:46 PM MDT for Harding County, San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 29 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 3, 2003, 5:46 PM MDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2003, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Harding County, NM, San Miguel 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
Jun 3, 2:20 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -288 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 922 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 563 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.0

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The text

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

504 
WFUS55 KABQ 032346
TORABQ
NMC021-047-040015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
547 PM MDT TUE JUN 3 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL HARDING COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
  NORTHEASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT

* AT 543 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER SOLANO...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOSQUERO...
  MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  6 MILES WEST OF MOSQUERO AT 600 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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3592 10402 3585 10422 3568 10413 3574 10393

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	60 min
Jun 2, 8:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	52 min
Jun 2, 9:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	23 min
Jun 2, 10:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	29 min
Jun 3, 4:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	51 min
Jun 3, 5:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	47 min
Jun 3, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	50 min
Jun 3, 5:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	39 min
Jun 3, 5:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	49 min

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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.