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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 23, 2007Harding County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2007, 3:15 PM MDT for Harding County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 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: Mar 23, 2007, 3:15 PM MDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2007, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Harding County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 831 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS55 KABQ 232116
TORABQ
NMC021-232200-
/O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0001.070323T2115Z-070323T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
315 PM MDT FRI MAR 23 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM MDT

* AT 312 PM MDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
  LOGAN IN NORTHERN QUAY COUNTY.

* THE TORNADO WILL CROSS OVER RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN HARDING
  COUNTY THROUGH 4 PM MDT.

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING
FOR EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS
IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3584 10336 3542 10338 3540 10339 3541 10360
      3547 10361 3582 10378 3582 10368 3585 10355

$$
SHY

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS55 KABQ 232150
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
349 PM MDT FRI MAR 23 2007

NMC021-232200-
/O.CON.KABQ.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070323T2200Z/
HARDING-
349 PM MDT FRI MAR 23 2007

...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN HARDING COUNTY
UNTIL 400 PM MDT...

AT 342 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SKYWARN 
SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY OF 
PRODUCING TORNADOES.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL HARDING COUNTY...

A TORNADO WAS REPORTED EARLIER NEAR LOGAN IN NORTHERN QUAY COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3584 10336 3542 10338 3540 10339 3541 10360
      3547 10361 3582 10378 3582 10368 3585 10355

$$

SHY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 11:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	53 min
Mar 23, 12:09 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	66 min
Mar 23, 3:35 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	55 min
Mar 23, 2:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	59 min
Mar 23, 2:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	64 min
Mar 23, 3:23 PM MDT	Snow Advisory	ABQ		21 hr
Mar 23, 3:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	63 min
Mar 23, 3:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	57 min
Mar 23, 3:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	67 min
Mar 23, 4:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	57 min
Mar 23, 4:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	60 min
Mar 23, 4:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	62 min
Mar 23, 5:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	48 min
Mar 23, 5:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	57 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.