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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 8, 2004Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 2004, 4:43 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 47 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
Apr 8, 2004, 4:43 PM MDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 2004, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chaves County, NM

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 8, 1:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 259 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-04-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 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.

000 
WFUS55 KABQ 082243
TORABQ
NMC005-082330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
440 PM MDT THU APR 8 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT

* AT 438 PM MDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
  OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEXTER...OR     
  ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF ROSWELL...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR OR JUST NORTH OF DEXTER AT 455 PM MDT

THIS IS A POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND OUTSIDE WALLS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3336 10460 3315 10459 3315 10427 3336 10428
$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 3:23 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves37 min
Apr 8, 3:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt51 min
Apr 8, 4:02 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves43 min
Apr 8, 4:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt43 min
Apr 8, 5:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt57 min
Apr 8, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves45 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.