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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 6, 2014Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 2014, 4:38 PM MDT for Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 37 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: Jun 6, 2014, 4:38 PM MDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2014, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 203 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 6, 2:43 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 259 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: 52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -507 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2307 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 447 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

125 
WFUS55 KABQ 062238
TORABQ
NMC007-059-062315-
/O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0002.140606T2238Z-140606T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
438 PM MDT FRI JUN 6 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
  WEST CENTRAL UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 436 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 12
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAPULIN...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DES
  MOINES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  CAPULIN AROUND 500 PM MDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR
NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.

&&

LAT...LON 3685 10396 3654 10377 3648 10392 3650 10411
      3661 10423
TIME...MOT...LOC 2238Z 240DEG 21KT 3661 10410

$$

1 follow-up statement

791 
WWUS55 KABQ 062311
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
511 PM MDT FRI JUN 6 2014

NMC007-059-062321-
/O.EXP.KABQ.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-140606T2315Z/
COLFAX NM-UNION NM-
511 PM MDT FRI JUN 6 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL UNION AND EAST CENTRAL COLFAX
COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 515 PM MDT...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR
NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3685 10396 3654 10377 3648 10392 3650 10411
      3661 10423
TIME...MOT...LOC 2311Z 240DEG 21KT 3671 10389

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 6:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	31 min
Jun 5, 6:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	55 min
Jun 5, 7:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	20 min
Jun 5, 8:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	33 min
Jun 5, 8:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	31 min
Jun 5, 8:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	58 min
Jun 5, 8:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	33 min
Jun 5, 8:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Union	114 min
Jun 5, 8:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	35 min
Jun 6, 12:50 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	40 min
Jun 6, 1:29 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	46 min
Jun 6, 2:13 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	47 min
Jun 6, 12:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	50 min
Jun 6, 12:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	66 min
Jun 6, 1:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	40 min
Jun 6, 1:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	46 min
Jun 6, 2:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	50 min
Jun 6, 2:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	47 min
Jun 6, 2:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	29 min
Jun 6, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Lincoln, Torrance	50 min
Jun 6, 2:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	66 min
Jun 6, 2:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	48 min
Jun 6, 3:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	44 min
Jun 6, 3:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		50 min
Jun 6, 3:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	2 hr
Jun 6, 3:31 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel	119 min
Jun 6, 3:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Torrance	114 min
Jun 6, 3:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	33 min
Jun 6, 3:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	44 min
Jun 6, 4:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	44 min
Jun 6, 4:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	52 min
Jun 6, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	46 min
Jun 6, 4:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	42 min
Jun 6, 4:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln	38 min
Jun 6, 4:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	43 min
Jun 6, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	47 min
Jun 6, 4:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	43 min
Jun 6, 4:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	39 min
Jun 6, 4:56 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora	34 min
Jun 6, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay, Roosevelt	60 min
Jun 6, 5:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	44 min
Jun 6, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	43 min
Jun 6, 5:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt, San Miguel	117 min
Jun 6, 5:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca, Lincoln, Quay	114 min
Jun 6, 5:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		39 min
Jun 6, 5:09 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry	36 min
Jun 6, 5:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel, Union	2 hr
Jun 6, 5:12 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	33 min
Jun 6, 5:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay	46 min
Jun 6, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	39 min
Jun 6, 5:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	23 min
Jun 6, 5:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora, Union	27 min
Jun 6, 5:35 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	40 min
Jun 6, 5:37 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding	38 min
Jun 6, 5:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	50 min
Jun 6, 5:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	34 min
Jun 6, 5:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry	33 min
Jun 6, 5:47 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	118 min
Jun 6, 5:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	55 min
Jun 6, 5:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	50 min
Jun 6, 5:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	32 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.