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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 4, 2003Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2003, 5:42 PM MDT for Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 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, 2003, 5:42 PM MDT (23:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2003, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Curry County, NM, 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
Jun 4, 2:20 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 94 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 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.

557 
WFUS55 KABQ 042342
TORABQ
NMC009-037-050045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
542 PM MDT WED JUN 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM MDT

* AT 539 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 13 MILES WEST OF WHEATLAND...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTH OF
  TUCUMCARI...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  4 MILES NORTH OF RANCHVALE AT 645 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.

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

LAT...LON 3495 10305 3499 10378 3467 10368 3440 10369
          3439 10305

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 6:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	14 min
Jun 3, 6:31 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	29 min
Jun 3, 6:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora	52 min
Jun 4, 1:42 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	48 min
Jun 4, 1:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	40 min
Jun 4, 2:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	29 min
Jun 4, 2:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	51 min
Jun 4, 3:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora	60 min
Jun 4, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	30 min
Jun 4, 3:57 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora	43 min
Jun 4, 4:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	52 min
Jun 4, 4:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	53 min
Jun 4, 5:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Quay	53 min
Jun 4, 5:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	38 min
Jun 4, 5:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	50 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.