Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2005, 6:31 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 44 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
- May 30, 2005, 6:31 PM MDT (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2005, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 44 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3339 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KABQ 310032 TORABQ NMC005-310115- /O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0003.050531T0031Z-050531T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 631 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 715 PM MDT * AT 624 PM MDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL 10 MILES WEST OF ROSWELL...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE STORM WILL BE NEAR... ROSWELL AROUND 640 PM MDT... 6 MILES NORTH OF DEXTER AROUND 715 PM MDT... 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 900 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO. LAT...LON 3345 10470 3325 10483 3307 10440 3336 10421 $$ 23
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS55 KABQ 310103 SVSABQ SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 701 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2005 NMC005-310115- /O.CON.KABQ.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050531T0115Z/ CHAVES- 701 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2005 ...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY UNTIL 715 PM MDT... AT 654 PM MDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MIDWAY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF ROSWELL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MIDWAY AROUND 655 PM MDT... 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROSWELL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AROUND 705 PM MDT... 4 MILES WEST OF DEXTER AND 5 MILES WEST OF GREENFIELD AROUND 715 PM MDT... GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO. LAT...LON 3345 10470 3325 10483 3307 10440 3336 10421 $$ 23
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 6:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 54 min |
| May 30, 6:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay | 46 min |
| May 30, 7:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Quay | 57 min |
| May 30, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 61 min |
| May 30, 7:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca | 42 min |
| May 30, 7:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 50 min |
| May 30, 7:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay | 50 min |
| May 30, 7:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 59 min |
| May 30, 7:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 67 min |
| May 30, 7:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 64 min |
| May 30, 8:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 59 min |
| May 30, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 46 min |
| May 30, 8:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 50 min |
| May 30, 8:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 37 min |
| May 30, 8:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 62 min |
| May 30, 8:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 59 min |
| May 30, 10:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 61 min |
| May 31, 12:09 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 27 min |
| May 31, 1:20 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 40 min |
| May 31, 1:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 26 min |
| May 31, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Harding | 45 min |
| May 31, 2:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 44 min |
| May 31, 2:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 63 min |
| May 31, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, San Miguel | 60 min |
| May 31, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 61 min |
| May 31, 3:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, San Miguel | 42 min |
| May 31, 4:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay, San Miguel | 58 min |
| May 31, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 30 min |
| May 31, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Mora | 44 min |
| May 31, 4:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 60 min |
| May 31, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 54 min |
| May 31, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 53 min |
| May 31, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 41 min |
| May 31, 5:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 67 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.