Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Oct 12, 2012, 5:14 PM MDT for Mora County, San Miguel County, Santa Fe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 31 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
- Oct 12, 2012, 5:14 PM MDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2012, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
640 WFUS55 KABQ 122314 TORABQ NMC033-047-049-122345- /O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0005.121012T2314Z-121012T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 514 PM MDT FRI OCT 12 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL SANTA FE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO WEST CENTRAL MORA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO NORTHWESTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 545 PM MDT * AT 511 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF UPPER COLONIAS...OR ABOUT 18 MILES EAST OF SANTA FE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TERERRO... SAN IGNACIO... GASCON... MORPHY LAKE STATE PARK... TIERRA MONTE... LEDOUX... CLEVELAND... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. LEAVE MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. IF POSSIBLE...MOVE TO A BASEMENT. OTHERWISE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND OUTSIDE WALLS. && LAT...LON 3604 10543 3589 10521 3554 10560 3565 10578 TIME...MOT...LOC 2314Z 219DEG 33KT 3566 10562 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 12:44 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 61 min |
| Oct 12, 1:42 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 33 min |
| Oct 12, 1:55 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 49 min |
| Oct 12, 3:01 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 59 min |
| Oct 12, 3:02 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 118 min |
| Oct 12, 3:18 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 57 min |
| Oct 12, 3:25 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 65 min |
| Oct 12, 4:05 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | ABQ | 14 hr | |
| Oct 12, 5:46 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 119 min |
| Oct 12, 12:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Sandoval | 47 min |
| Oct 12, 2:30 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe | 2 hr |
| Oct 12, 2:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Taos | 27 min |
| Oct 12, 3:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Santa Fe | 53 min |
| Oct 12, 4:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Santa Fe | 25 min |
| Oct 12, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 45 min |
| Oct 12, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 24 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 2012Every tornado warning in 2012Tornadoes in 2012
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.