Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 2004, 6:20 PM MDT for Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 25 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
- Aug 12, 2004, 6:20 PM MDT (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2004, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lincoln 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KABQ 130020 TORABQ NMC027-130045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 619 PM MDT THU AUG 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 645 PM MDT * AT 618 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 28 MILES SOUTH OF VAUGHN...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER RURAL NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY THIS STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 247. 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. LAT...LON 3431 10491 3429 10522 3404 10528 3402 10490 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 6:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 40 min |
| Aug 12, 6:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 38 min |
| Aug 12, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Aug 12, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 6:49 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Aug 12, 7:21 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 114 min |
| Aug 12, 7:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Aug 12, 8:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Aug 12, 10:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 37 min |
| Aug 12, 10:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 38 min |
| Aug 12, 11:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 38 min |
| Aug 13, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 51 min |
| Aug 13, 4:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 44 min |
| Aug 13, 4:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 56 min |
| Aug 13, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 46 min |
| Aug 13, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Torrance | 43 min |
| Aug 13, 5:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 62 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.