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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 7, 2003Torrance County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2003, 7:08 PM MDT for Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 22 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
Jul 7, 2003, 7:08 PM MDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2003, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Torrance County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 350 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 765 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

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

589 
WFUS55 KABQ 080108
TORABQ
NMC057-080130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
706 PM MDT MON JUL 7 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN TORRANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 730 PM MDT

* AT 654 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF CLINES CORNERS...OR ABOUT 27 
  MILES EAST OF MORIARTY...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM ALSO
  IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING EXTREMELY LARGE HAIL OF 2 TO 4 INCH
  DIAMETER.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER RURAL NORTHERN TORRANCE COUNTY CROSSING INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN
  CLINES CORNERS AND THE FLYING C RANCH OR NEAR MILE MARKERS 220 TO 
  230.

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.

LAT...LON 3505 10539 3503 10574 3480 10575 3478 10537
$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 6:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel56 min
Jul 7, 6:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel22 min
Jul 7, 6:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance43 min
Jul 7, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance45 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.