Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Aug 15, 2008, 6:46 PM MDT for Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 26 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
- Aug 15, 2008, 6:46 PM MDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2008, 7:12 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Torrance County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 3:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 66 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KABQ 160046 TORABQ NMC057-160130- /O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0021.080816T0046Z-080816T0130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 646 PM MDT FRI AUG 15 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL TORRANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 730 PM MDT * AT 642 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MANZANO... OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ESTANCIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MOUNTAINAIR AROUND 710 PM MDT... WILLARD AROUND 730 PM MDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES. MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND OUTSIDE WALLS. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. LAT...LON 3462 10592 3440 10605 3459 10644 3475 10635 TIME...MOT...LOC 0046Z 295DEG 13KT 3463 10630 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS55 KABQ 160112 SVSABQ SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 712 PM MDT FRI AUG 15 2008 NMC057-160122- /O.CAN.KABQ.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080816T0130Z/ TORRANCE- 712 PM MDT FRI AUG 15 2008 ...TORNADO WARNING CANCELLED FOR WEST CENTRAL TORRANCE COUNTY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND POSSIBLE TORNADO HAVE WEAKENED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAINS... SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. LAT...LON 3462 10592 3440 10605 3459 10644 3475 10635 TIME...MOT...LOC 0112Z 295DEG 13KT 3459 10620 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 6:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Torrance, Valencia | 39 min |
| Aug 15, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln, Torrance | 63 min |
| Aug 15, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel, Santa Fe | 55 min |
| Aug 15, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Harding, Union | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 7:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln, Socorro, Torrance | 56 min |
| Aug 15, 7:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, Union | 57 min |
| Aug 15, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln, Socorro | 24 min |
| Aug 15, 8:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 9:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 58 min |
| Aug 15, 11:19 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 86 min |
| Aug 15, 11:25 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 80 min |
| Aug 15, 11:55 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 95 min |
| Aug 16, 1:10 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, Curry, Roosevelt | 110 min |
| Aug 16, 2:07 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 113 min |
| Aug 16, 3:15 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:46 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Taos | 119 min |
| Aug 16, 6:18 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 117 min |
| Aug 16, 2:36 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 114 min |
| Aug 16, 2:50 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo | 85 min |
| Aug 16, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 39 min |
| Aug 16, 3:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance | 37 min |
| Aug 16, 3:43 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Torrance | 92 min |
| Aug 16, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | McKinley, Sandoval | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 4:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Taos | 57 min |
| Aug 16, 5:05 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Socorro | 115 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.