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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 23, 2007Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2007, 6:55 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 23, 2007, 6:55 PM MDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2007, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Roosevelt County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 23, 7:24 PM MDT	TORNADO	2 N Arch, NM	LARGE TORNADO
Mar 23, 7:28 PM MDT	TORNADO	Rogers, NM	HOME DESTROYED IN ROGERS
Mar 23, 7:42 PM MDT	TORNADO	10 Ne Portales, NM	TORNADO NEAR CURRY COUNTY LINE. SOUTH OF TEXICO JUST NORTH OF HWY 202

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 23, 2:19 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 1541 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 5.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS55 KABQ 240055
TORABQ
NMC041-240145-
/O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0003.070324T0055Z-070324T0145Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT

* AT 651 PM MDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A RAIN WRAPPED TORNADO 
  11 MILES SOUTH OF ARCH...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF 
  PORTALES...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ARCH AROUND 710 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.

LAT...LON 3392 10331 3386 10304 3431 10305 3431 10339

$$

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2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS55 KABQ 240127
SVSABQ

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

NMC041-240145-
/O.CON.KABQ.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070324T0145Z/
ROOSEVELT-
726 PM MDT FRI MAR 23 2007

...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL ROOSEVELT
COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM MDT...

AT 724 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SKYWARN
SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO.  THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF ARCH...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF
PORTALES...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL NORTHEAST ROOSEVELT COUNTY...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING
FOR EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3392 10331 3386 10304 3417 10304 3431 10305
      3431 10339

$$

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000 
WWUS55 KABQ 240146
SVSABQ

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

NMC041-240155-
/O.EXP.KABQ.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070324T0145Z/
ROOSEVELT-
745 PM MDT FRI MAR 23 2007

...TORNADO WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR EAST CENTRAL ROOSEVELT COUNTY...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM AND POSSIBLE TORNADO HAVE EXITED THE WARNED AREA...THUS
THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. THIS TORNADO HAS
MOVED INTO CURRY COUNTY.  HOWEVER...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN 
EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL ROOSEVELT COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM MDT WHERE
RADAR INDICATES A TORNADO BETWEEN ELIDA AND PORTALES.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING
FOR EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3392 10331 3386 10304 3417 10304 3431 10305
      3431 10339

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 23, 6:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	56 min
Mar 23, 6:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	57 min
Mar 23, 6:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	60 min
Mar 23, 7:18 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	42 min
Mar 23, 7:33 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry	42 min
Mar 23, 8:03 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	42 min
Mar 23, 8:12 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry	48 min
Mar 23, 8:47 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	43 min
Mar 23, 10:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	47 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 2007 Every tornado warning in 2007 Tornadoes in 2007

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.