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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 3, 2007San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2007, 3:10 PM MDT for San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 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 3, 2007, 3:10 PM MDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2007, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County San Miguel County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 3, 1:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 3055 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 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 032110
TORABQ
NMC047-032200-
/O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0013.070603T2110Z-070603T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
310 PM MDT SUN JUN 3 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL SAN MIGUEL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 400 PM MDT

* AT 309 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ALONG A
  LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF WATROUS TO WATROUS...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WATROUS AROUND 315 PM MDT...
  SAN ANTONIO AROUND 320 PM MDT...
  6 MILES WEST OF MAES AROUND 400 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.

LAT...LON 3578 10502 3579 10495 3579 10475 3579 10457
      3571 10450 3544 10489 3568 10537 3580 10517
      3583 10514

$$

DPORTER

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS55 KABQ 032135
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
333 PM MDT SUN JUN 3 2007

NMC047-032200-
/O.CON.KABQ.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070603T2200Z/
SAN MIGUEL-
333 PM MDT SUN JUN 3 2007

...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL SAN MIGUEL COUNTY
UNTIL 400 PM MDT...

AT 330 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  
THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES EAST 
OF WATROUS TO 9 MILES EAST OF LAS VEGAS...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING 
FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF WAGON MOUND TO 9 MILES EAST OF LAS VEGAS... 
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  MAES AND 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRUJILLO AROUND 355 PM MDT...

IN ADDITION TO THE STRONG ROTATION...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF 
PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDINGS OR LIE FLAT IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR
HEAD.

LAT...LON 3578 10502 3579 10495 3579 10475 3579 10457
      3560 10432 3527 10485 3562 10532 3583 10514

$$

DPORTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 6:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	64 min
Jun 2, 8:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	56 min
Jun 2, 11:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	67 min
Jun 3, 12:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	67 min
Jun 3, 1:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	63 min
Jun 3, 2:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	60 min
Jun 3, 2:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	59 min
Jun 3, 3:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	60 min
Jun 3, 3:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	55 min
Jun 3, 4:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	59 min
Jun 3, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	62 min
Jun 3, 4:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	64 min
Jun 3, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	58 min
Jun 3, 5:08 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	52 min
Jun 3, 5:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	63 min
Jun 3, 5:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	47 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.