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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 19, 2012Torrance County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 2012, 3:27 PM MDT for Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 11 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 19, 2012, 3:27 PM MDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 2012, 3:38 PM MDT
In force: 11 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Torrance County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 114 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 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.

414 
WFUS55 KABQ 192127
TORABQ
NMC057-192215-
/O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0004.120819T2127Z-120819T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
327 PM MDT SUN AUG 19 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 PM MDT

* AT 324 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EAST
  CENTRAL TORRANCE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF VAUGHN...
  MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL EAST CENTRAL TORRANCE COUNTY...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3489 10545 3480 10538 3472 10543 3472 10558
      3485 10559 3491 10553
TIME...MOT...LOC 2127Z 338DEG 4KT 3482 10553

$$

1 follow-up statement

319 
WWUS55 KABQ 192138
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
338 PM MDT SUN AUG 19 2012

NMC057-192148-
/O.CAN.KABQ.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-120819T2215Z/
TORRANCE-
338 PM MDT SUN AUG 19 2012

...TORNADO WARNING CANCELLED FOR EAST 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.

LAT...LON 3489 10545 3480 10538 3472 10543 3472 10558
      3485 10559 3491 10553
TIME...MOT...LOC 2138Z 338DEG 4KT 3481 10552

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 18, 6:00 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	2 hr
Aug 18, 6:08 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe	4 hr
Aug 18, 6:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo	86 min
Aug 18, 6:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	3 hr
Aug 18, 7:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	119 min
Aug 18, 7:19 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Catron	3 hr
Aug 18, 8:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	25 min
Aug 18, 8:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		33 min
Aug 18, 9:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	23 min
Aug 18, 10:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	117 min
Aug 19, 6:06 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	24 min
Aug 19, 12:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	29 min
Aug 19, 1:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	37 min
Aug 19, 1:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval	111 min
Aug 19, 1:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	85 min
Aug 19, 1:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	66 min
Aug 19, 1:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro	59 min
Aug 19, 1:41 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Aug 19, 1:56 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 19, 2:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	59 min
Aug 19, 2:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	80 min
Aug 19, 2:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel, Torrance	58 min
Aug 19, 2:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	94 min
Aug 19, 2:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	46 min
Aug 19, 3:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	49 min
Aug 19, 3:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	42 min
Aug 19, 3:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	57 min
Aug 19, 3:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	2 hr
Aug 19, 3:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, Lincoln, Torrance	111 min
Aug 19, 4:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	116 min
Aug 19, 4:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel	81 min
Aug 19, 4:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	29 min
Aug 19, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	42 min
Aug 19, 4:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	27 min
Aug 19, 4:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	34 min
Aug 19, 5:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	87 min
Aug 19, 5:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel	82 min
Aug 19, 5:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	35 min
Aug 19, 5:47 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay	3 hr
Aug 19, 5:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	33 min
Aug 19, 5:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	32 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.