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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 4, 2003Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2003, 6:14 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 46 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, 6:14 PM MDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2003, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 46 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
Jun 4, 2:20 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 945 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 7.2

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The text

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

636 
WFUS55 KABQ 050014
TORABQ
NMC037-050100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM MDT

* AT 610 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MONTOYA...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF
  TUCUMCARI...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  8 MILES NORTHEAST OF MONTOYA AT 625 PM MDT

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3524 10362 3524 10388 3514 10410 3492 10410
          3499 10362

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 6:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	52 min
Jun 4, 6:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry	60 min
Jun 4, 7:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	45 min
Jun 4, 7:38 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	67 min
Jun 4, 7:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	62 min
Jun 4, 8:46 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	29 min
Jun 4, 8:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	54 min
Jun 4, 9:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	39 min
Jun 4, 9:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	47 min
Jun 5, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	45 min
Jun 5, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	61 min
Jun 5, 4:53 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Quay	37 min
Jun 5, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	43 min
Jun 5, 5:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	39 min
Jun 5, 5:27 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	48 min
Jun 5, 5:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	44 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.