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Tornado Watch 383

May 28, 200822 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 28, 2008, 2:28 PM MDT for 22 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2008, 2:28 PM MDT (20:28 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2008, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 22 counties

Bernalillo County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, Mora County, NM, Otero County, NM, Quay County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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 SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes: 50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

35 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 3:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	60 min
May 28, 3:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel, Santa Fe	63 min
May 28, 3:38 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Taos	52 min
May 28, 3:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	San Miguel, Santa Fe	48 min
May 28, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	60 min
May 28, 3:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	52 min
May 28, 3:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	61 min
May 28, 4:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	65 min
May 28, 4:11 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Miguel, Santa Fe	2 hr
May 28, 4:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe	67 min
May 28, 4:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel, Santa Fe	50 min
May 28, 4:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	64 min
May 28, 4:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	64 min
May 28, 5:09 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	2 hr
May 28, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	64 min
May 28, 5:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	45 min
May 28, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Torrance	59 min
May 28, 5:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	50 min
May 28, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	33 min
May 28, 5:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	49 min
May 28, 5:46 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	44 min
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, 8:14 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

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -290 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1721 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 273 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 7:48 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lea	87 min
May 28, 1:54 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Los Alamos and 3 more	96 min
May 28, 4:30 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy and 16 more	90 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.