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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 5, 2004Socorro County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Oct 5, 2004, 2:29 PM MDT for Socorro 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: Oct 5, 2004, 2:29 PM MDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired: Oct 5, 2004, 3:15 PM MDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Socorro County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 5, 11:55 AM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS55 KABQ 052029
TORABQ
NMC053-052115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
229 PM MDT TUE OCT 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SOCORRO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 315 PM MDT

* AT 226 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER CENTRAL SOCORRO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF
  SOCORRO...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER RURAL CENTRAL SOCORRO COUNTY 

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

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR EASTERN NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3413 10690 3395 10688 3393 10640 3421 10644

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 4, 8:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Cibola, Valencia	37 min
Oct 4, 9:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	45 min
Oct 4, 9:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Cibola	61 min
Oct 4, 10:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	44 min
Oct 4, 11:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	43 min
Oct 5, 12:31 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval	59 min
Oct 5, 12:47 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	58 min
Oct 5, 1:44 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	61 min
Oct 5, 2:17 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	58 min
Oct 5, 4:19 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	56 min
Oct 5, 4:42 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Quay	3 hr
Oct 5, 5:06 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	39 min
Oct 5, 7:16 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	89 min
Oct 5, 7:37 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	38 min
Oct 5, 8:45 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	90 min
Oct 5, 9:25 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	50 min
Oct 5, 10:18 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval	42 min
Oct 5, 11:46 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	59 min
Oct 5, 12:04 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	De Baca	116 min
Oct 5, 12:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	36 min
Oct 5, 12:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Valencia	40 min
Oct 5, 12:26 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Cibola	49 min
Oct 5, 12:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval, Valencia	44 min
Oct 5, 1:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	39 min
Oct 5, 1:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Valencia	46 min
Oct 5, 1:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	61 min
Oct 5, 1:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	45 min
Oct 5, 1:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	67 min
Oct 5, 1:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Valencia	17 min
Oct 5, 2:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	59 min
Oct 5, 2:06 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Torrance	84 min
Oct 5, 2:14 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Torrance	31 min
Oct 5, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	15 min
Oct 5, 2:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	51 min
Oct 5, 3:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	38 min
Oct 5, 3:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	45 min
Oct 5, 4:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	45 min
Oct 5, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	56 min
Oct 5, 5:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	44 min
Oct 5, 5:25 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	De Baca	95 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.