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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2005, 6:59 PM MDT for Harding County, Quay 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
- May 30, 2005, 6:59 PM MDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2005, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Harding County, NM, Quay 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, 1:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| May 30, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1609 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KABQ 310059 TORABQ NMC021-037-310145- /O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0004.050531T0059Z-050531T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 659 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL QUAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO SOUTHEASTERN HARDING COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 745 PM MDT * AT 654 PM MDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 7 MILES NORTH OF LOGAN...OR ABOUT 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NARA VISA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOGAN AROUND 710 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 3557 10350 3542 10360 3519 10307 3548 10306 $$ 23
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS55 KABQ 310110 SVSABQ SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 708 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2005 NMC021-037-310145- /O.CON.KABQ.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-050531T0145Z/ HARDING-QUAY- 708 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2005 ...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL QUAY AND SOUTHEASTERN HARDING COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM MDT... AT 702 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SKYWARN SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF LOGAN...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NARA VISA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOGAN AROUND 715 PM MDT... AT 653 PM MDT 2.0 INCH DIAMETER HAIL WAS REPORTED 15 MILES NORTH OF LOGAN. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO. LAT...LON 3557 10350 3542 10360 3519 10307 3548 10306 $$ 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, 6:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 44 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.