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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 28, 2008Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at May 28, 2008, 9:00 PM MDT for Quay 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: May 28, 2008, 9:00 PM MDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2008, 9:45 PM MDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Quay County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 28, 2:28 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -223 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1698 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 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 290300
TORABQ
NMC037-290345-
/O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0013.080529T0300Z-080529T0345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
900 PM MDT WED MAY 28 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 945 PM MDT

* AT 855 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ALONG 
  THE LEADING EDGE...EXTENDING FROM 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF GLENRIO TO 
  15 MILES WEST OF SAN JON...MOVING EAST AT 23 MPH.

* TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  SAN JON AROUND 935 PM MDT...
  GLENRIO AROUND 945 PM MDT...

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL UP TO ONE INCH 
AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE 
NOW.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR EASTERN NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3557 10302 3501 10303 3514 10372 3556 10317
TIME...MOT...LOC 0300Z 279DEG 20KT 3545 10315 3515 10355

$$

DPORTER

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS55 KABQ 290325
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
925 PM MDT WED MAY 28 2008

NMC037-290345-
/O.CON.KABQ.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-080529T0345Z/
QUAY-
925 PM MDT WED MAY 28 2008

...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL QUAY COUNTY
UNTIL 945 PM MDT...

AT 921 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A LINE OF STORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THESE 
STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 22 MILES NORTH OF 
GLENRIO TO 17 MILES WEST OF GLENRIO...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 
9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NARA VISA TO 21 MILES EAST OF TUCUMCARI... 
MOVING EAST AT 19 MPH.

* TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  8 MILES NORTHWEST OF GLENRIO AROUND 945 PM MDT...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS UP TO 70 MPH.

LAT...LON 3557 10303 3513 10304 3529 10352 3545 10332
      3545 10331 3555 10318 3556 10317
TIME...MOT...LOC 0325Z 266DEG 16KT 3549 10301 3518 10333

$$

DPORTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 6:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	59 min
May 28, 6:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	58 min
May 28, 6:11 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	2 hr
May 28, 6:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	45 min
May 28, 6:31 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel	44 min
May 28, 7:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	40 min
May 28, 7:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel	60 min
May 28, 7:35 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel	40 min
May 28, 7:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	51 min
May 28, 7:44 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel	2 hr
May 28, 8:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	113 min
May 28, 8:14 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	46 min
May 28, 8:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel, Torrance	39 min
May 28, 8:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	62 min
May 28, 9:04 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay	116 min
May 28, 9:37 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	113 min
May 28, 9:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	35 min
May 28, 10:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	42 min
May 28, 11:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay, Union	21 min
May 29, 12:22 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	34 min
May 29, 8:02 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan and 1 more	12 hr
May 29, 2:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	67 min
May 29, 2:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	66 min
May 29, 3:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt	55 min
May 29, 3:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	32 min
May 29, 3:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	59 min
May 29, 4:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	66 min
May 29, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt	60 min
May 29, 5:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	14 min
May 29, 5:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt	62 min
May 29, 5:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	44 min

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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.