Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 2006, 11:00 AM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 14, 2006, 11:00 AM MDT (17:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2006, 11:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chaves County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1167 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 141702 TORABQ NMC005-141730- /O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0002.060814T1700Z-060814T1730Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1100 AM MDT MON AUG 14 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 1130 AM MDT * AT 1052 AM MDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO NORTH OF THE DETECTION CENTER IN ROSWELL AND WAS MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH NEAR THE POST STREET AREA. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SOUTH ROSWELL AROUND 1110 AM MDT... GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR IN YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. AVOID OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3326 10439 3344 10439 3346 10472 3323 10471 $$ 50
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS55 KABQ 141722 SVSABQ SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1118 AM MDT MON AUG 14 2006 NMC005-141730- /O.CON.KABQ.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060814T1730Z/ CHAVES- 1118 AM MDT MON AUG 14 2006 ...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY UNTIL 1130 AM MDT... AT 1114 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SKYWARN SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR POST STREET IN ROSWELL...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. THIS STROM HAS WEAKENED SLIGHTLY. LAT...LON 3326 10439 3344 10439 3346 10472 3323 10471 $$ 23
000 WWUS55 KABQ 141731 SVSABQ SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1129 AM MDT MON AUG 14 2006 NMC005-141739- /O.EXP.KABQ.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060814T1730Z/ CHAVES- 1129 AM MDT MON AUG 14 2006 ...TORNADO WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY AT 1130 AM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING NO LONGER APPEARED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT THIS TIME...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. TROPICAL FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE AS A RESULT OF A VERY MOIST ATMOSPHERE WITH A LITTLE BIT OF WIND SHEAR DUE TO UPDRAFTS AND DOWNDRAFTS FROM RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LAT...LON 3326 10439 3344 10439 3346 10472 3323 10471 $$ 23
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 6:29 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Socorro | 2 hr |
| Aug 13, 6:53 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Catron | 2 hr |
| Aug 13, 7:18 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 117 min |
| Aug 13, 7:43 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 4 hr |
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.