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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 23, 2007Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2007, 8:47 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 43 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, 8:47 PM MDT (02:47 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2007, 9:30 PM MDT
In force: 43 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), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:50 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
Mar 23, 2:19 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 210 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 240248
TORABQ
NMC041-240330-
/O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0008.070324T0247Z-070324T0330Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM MDT

* AT 841 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LINGO...OR
  ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF MORTON...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ARCH AROUND 905 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 3357 10349 3357 10305 3431 10304 3429 10331

$$

19

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS55 KABQ 240324
SVSABQ

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

NMC041-240330-
/O.CON.KABQ.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-070324T0330Z/
ROOSEVELT-
923 PM MDT FRI MAR 23 2007

...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY
UNTIL 930 PM MDT...

AT 918 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO.  ROTATION 
WAS LOCATED NEAR ARCH...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF 
PORTALES...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

LAT...LON 3357 10349 3357 10305 3431 10304 3429 10331

$$

000 
WWUS55 KABQ 240335
SVSABQ

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

NMC041-240341-
/O.EXP.KABQ.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-070324T0330Z/
ROOSEVELT-
935 PM MDT FRI MAR 23 2007

...TORNADO WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR EASTERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING NO LONGER APPEARED CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING A TORNADO...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAINS...
SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM.
ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN 
ROOSEVELT COUNTY AFTER 945 PM.  

LAT...LON 3357 10349 3357 10305 3431 10304 3429 10331

$$

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, 6:55 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	50 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, 10:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm 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.