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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 25, 2007Socorro County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2007, 2:00 PM MDT for Socorro County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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: May 25, 2007, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2007, 2:45 PM MDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Socorro County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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
May 25, 2:12 PM MDT	HAIL 1	20 Nnw Magdalena, NM	EMT REMPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL NORTH OF ALAMO...CORRECTED TIME OF HAIL EVENT.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 161 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1435 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS55 KABQ 252000
TORABQ
NMC053-252045-
/O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0009.070525T2000Z-070525T2045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
200 PM MDT FRI MAY 25 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL SOCORRO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 245 PM MDT

* AT 155 PM MDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER
  NORTHWESTERN SOCORRO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 32 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  DATIL...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHWESTERN SOCORRO COUNTY AROUND 210 PM MDT...
  RURAL NORTHERN SOCORRO COUNTY AROUND 240 PM MDT...

IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW.

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

LAT...LON 3455 10741 3458 10738 3458 10705 3454 10702
      3445 10698 3434 10747 3439 10750 3446 10752
      3450 10755

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS55 KABQ 252026
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
221 PM MDT FRI MAY 25 2007

NMC053-252045-
/O.CON.KABQ.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070525T2045Z/
SOCORRO-
221 PM MDT FRI MAY 25 2007

...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL SOCORRO COUNTY
UNTIL 245 PM MDT...

AT 218 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME NORTH 
CENTRAL SOCORRO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF ALAMO...MOVING 
EAST AT 15 MPH. 

AT 214 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED QUARTER SIZED HAIL AND ANOTHER 
FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR ALAMO.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  THE WEST SLOPE OF LADRON PEAK IN RURAL NORTHERN SOCORRO COUNTY     
  AROUND 240 PM MDT...

IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW.

LAT...LON 3440 10746 3458 10747 3458 10705 3454 10702
      3445 10698

$$


44

000 
WWUS55 KABQ 252042
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
242 PM MDT FRI MAY 25 2007

NMC053-252052-
/O.EXP.KABQ.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070525T2045Z/
SOCORRO-
242 PM MDT FRI MAY 25 2007

...TORNADO WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 245 PM MDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL
SOCORRO 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...HAIL UP TO HALF AN INCH AND GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE 
FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3440 10746 3458 10747 3458 10705 3454 10702
      3445 10698

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 12:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	44 min
May 25, 1:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	61 min
May 25, 3:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	63 min
May 25, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	62 min
May 25, 4:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	64 min
May 25, 5:10 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Torrance	50 min
May 25, 5:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	56 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.