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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 6, 2015Guadalupe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2015, 3:43 PM MDT for Guadalupe 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: Jul 6, 2015, 3:43 PM MDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2015, 3:54 PM MDT
In force: 11 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

County Guadalupe County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1170 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

744 
WFUS55 KABQ 062143
TORABQ
NMC019-062215-
/O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0003.150706T2143Z-150706T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
343 PM MDT MON JUL 6 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN GUADALUPE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...

* UNTIL 415 PM MDT
    
* AT 342 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR CUERVO...OR 11 MILES EAST OF SANTA ROSA...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CUERVO AROUND 415 PM MDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3485 10449 3500 10461 3517 10442 3494 10423
TIME...MOT...LOC 2142Z 236DEG 6KT 3498 10448 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

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1 follow-up statement

578 
WWUS55 KABQ 062154
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
354 PM MDT MON JUL 6 2015

NMC019-062204-
/O.CAN.KABQ.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-150706T2215Z/
GUADALUPE-
354 PM MDT MON JUL 6 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN GUADALUPE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
    
THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS REMAIN LIKELY
AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT 
UNTIL 445 PM.

LAT...LON 3485 10449 3500 10461 3517 10442 3494 10423
TIME...MOT...LOC 2153Z 236DEG 6KT 3499 10446 

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 6:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola	112 min
Jul 5, 6:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval, Santa Fe	112 min
Jul 5, 8:53 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	ABQ		25 hr
Jul 5, 8:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Taos	2 hr
Jul 6, 12:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	94 min
Jul 6, 12:36 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Santa Fe	114 min
Jul 6, 12:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Roosevelt	2 hr
Jul 6, 12:45 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	90 min
Jul 6, 12:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	2 hr
Jul 6, 1:35 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe	85 min
Jul 6, 1:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	111 min
Jul 6, 2:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Taos	119 min
Jul 6, 2:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	84 min
Jul 6, 2:16 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	119 min
Jul 6, 2:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Torrance	111 min
Jul 6, 2:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Santa Fe	119 min
Jul 6, 3:12 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Santa Fe	2 hr
Jul 6, 3:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe	115 min
Jul 6, 3:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	115 min
Jul 6, 3:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	31 min
Jul 6, 4:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay	44 min
Jul 6, 4:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance	88 min
Jul 6, 4:30 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance	60 min
Jul 6, 4:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo	117 min
Jul 6, 4:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 6, 5:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Valencia	94 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.