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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 6, 2005Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 2005, 3:57 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 6, 2005, 3:57 PM MDT (21:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2005, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chaves County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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
Jun 6, 1:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4641 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 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 062157
TORABQ
NMC005-062245-
/O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0007.050606T2157Z-050606T2245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
357 PM MDT MON JUN 6 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM MDT

* AT 346 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER CENTRAL
  CHAVES COUNTY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTH OF ROSWELL...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTH CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY AROUND 410 PM MDT

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.

LAT...LON 3369 10462 3354 10449 3352 10445 3370 10418
      3386 10446

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS55 KABQ 062223
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
423 PM MDT MON JUN 6 2005

NMC005-062245-
/O.CON.KABQ.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050606T2245Z/
CHAVES-
423 PM MDT MON JUN 6 2005

...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY UNTIL
445 PM MDT...

AT 415 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTH OF
ROSWELL...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY AROUND 410 PM MDT...

LAT...LON 3371 10454 3354 10451 3347 10427 3367 10409
      3387 10435

$$
50

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 1:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	59 min
Jun 6, 2:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	55 min
Jun 6, 2:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	55 min
Jun 6, 3:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	57 min
Jun 6, 3:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	54 min
Jun 6, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	62 min
Jun 6, 4:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	56 min
Jun 6, 4:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	48 min
Jun 6, 4:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	25 min
Jun 6, 4:41 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	49 min
Jun 6, 4:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	64 min
Jun 6, 5:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	52 min
Jun 6, 5:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	67 min
Jun 6, 5:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	59 min
Jun 6, 5:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	24 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.