Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at May 28, 2008, 6:15 PM MDT for Chaves 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, 6:15 PM MDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2008, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Chaves County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2:28 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3390 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KABQ 290015 TORABQ NMC005-290100- /O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0009.080529T0015Z-080529T0100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 615 PM MDT WED MAY 28 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 700 PM MDT * AT 613 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH OF ROSWELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 44 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHERN CHAVES COUNTY AROUND 630 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN NEW MEXICO. LAT...LON 3395 10421 3364 10407 3348 10457 3364 10468 TIME...MOT...LOC 0015Z 237DEG 38KT 3362 10452 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS55 KABQ 290051 RRA SVSABQ SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 651 PM MDT WED MAY 28 2008 NMC005-290101- /O.EXP.KABQ.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-080529T0100Z/ CHAVES- 651 PM MDT WED MAY 28 2008 ...TORNADO WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 700 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING NO LONGER APPEARED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAINS... SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN NEW MEXICO. LAT...LON 3395 10421 3364 10407 3348 10457 3364 10468 TIME...MOT...LOC 0051Z 235DEG 16KT 3368 10441 $$
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, 6:31 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, 9:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Quay | 45 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.