Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Oct 5, 2004, 11:26 AM MST for Cibola County, New Mexico. It was in force for 49 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
- Oct 5, 2004, 11:26 AM MST (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2004, 12:15 PM MST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cibola County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 465 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1157 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS55 KABQ 051826
TORABQ
NMC006-051915-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1225 PM MDT TUE OCT 5 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL CIBOLA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 115 PM MDT
* AT 1221 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF MESITA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH
OF LAGUNA PUEBLO...MOVING EASTNORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
OVER RURAL EASTERN CIBOLA COUNTY
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR EASTERN NEW MEXICO.
LAT...LON 3494 10745 3479 10732 3496 10722 3499 10709
3513 10716
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 7:38 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Cibola, Valencia | 37 min |
| Oct 4, 8:45 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 45 min |
| Oct 4, 8:59 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Cibola | 61 min |
| Oct 4, 9:31 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 44 min |
| Oct 4, 10:17 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 43 min |
| Oct 4, 11:31 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval | 59 min |
| Oct 4, 11:47 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 58 min |
| Oct 5, 12:44 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 61 min |
| Oct 5, 1:17 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 58 min |
| Oct 5, 3:19 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 56 min |
| Oct 5, 3:42 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Quay | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 4:06 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 39 min |
| Oct 5, 6:16 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 89 min |
| Oct 5, 6:37 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 38 min |
| Oct 5, 7:45 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 90 min |
| Oct 5, 8:25 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 50 min |
| Oct 5, 9:18 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval | 42 min |
| Oct 5, 10:46 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 59 min |
| Oct 5, 11:04 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 116 min |
| Oct 5, 11:09 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 36 min |
| Oct 5, 11:20 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Valencia | 40 min |
| Oct 5, 11:46 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Sandoval, Valencia | 44 min |
| Oct 5, 12:06 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 39 min |
| Oct 5, 12:29 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Valencia | 46 min |
| Oct 5, 12:29 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 61 min |
| Oct 5, 12:45 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Oct 5, 12:53 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Socorro | 67 min |
| Oct 5, 12:58 PM MST | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Valencia | 17 min |
| Oct 5, 1:01 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 59 min |
| Oct 5, 1:06 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 84 min |
| Oct 5, 1:14 PM MST | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 31 min |
| Oct 5, 1:29 PM MST | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Socorro | 46 min |
| Oct 5, 1:30 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 15 min |
| Oct 5, 1:39 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 51 min |
| Oct 5, 2:07 PM MST | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 38 min |
| Oct 5, 2:45 PM MST | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 45 min |
| Oct 5, 3:30 PM MST | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 45 min |
| Oct 5, 3:34 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 56 min |
| Oct 5, 4:16 PM MST | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 44 min |
| Oct 5, 4:25 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 95 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.