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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 9, 2004Harding County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2004, 7:18 PM MDT for Harding County, New Mexico. It was in force for 57 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: Jul 9, 2004, 7:18 PM MDT (01:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2004, 8:15 PM MDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Harding County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 1953 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS55 KABQ 100118
TORABQ
NMC021-100215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
717 PM MDT FRI JUL 9 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HARDING COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 815 PM MDT

* AT 713 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROSEBUD...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF MOSQUERO...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER RURAL SOUTHERN HARDING COUNTY 

THIS TORNADO WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF HIGHWAY 39 NEAR GALLEGOS 
RANCH UNTIL AROUND 730 PM. THIS STORM COULD EASILY STALL OR SHIFT 
DIRECTION AT ANY TIME.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES. MOVE
INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS AND OUTSIDE WALLS.

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.

LAT...LON 3577 10392 3544 10370 3546 10338 3590 10341
$$
44

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 6:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	53 min
Jul 9, 7:51 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Harding	114 min
Jul 9, 8:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	56 min
Jul 9, 9:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	37 min
Jul 9, 9:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	66 min
Jul 9, 10:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	62 min
Jul 9, 10:48 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	117 min
Jul 9, 10:57 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves	108 min
Jul 10, 2:57 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Lincoln	2 hr
Jul 10, 5:37 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora	113 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.