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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 18, 2015Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Aug 18, 2015, 10:49 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 26 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 18, 2015, 10:49 PM MDT (04:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 2015, 11:15 PM MDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.25 in

County Quay County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 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.

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: 2335 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 337 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 16.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

868 
WFUS55 KABQ 190449
TORABQ
NMC037-190515-
/O.NEW.KABQ.TO.W.0005.150819T0449Z-150819T0515Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1049 PM MDT TUE AUG 18 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1115 PM MDT
    
* AT 1049 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR NARA VISA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. 

  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...
  NARA VISA AROUND 1100 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.

TORNADOES ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. DO NOT
WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3573 10317 3567 10304 3549 10304 3539 10305
TIME...MOT...LOC 0449Z 321DEG 29KT 3565 10318 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.25IN

$$

SHOEMAKE

1 follow-up statement

388 
WWUS55 KABQ 190507
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1107 PM MDT TUE AUG 18 2015

NMC037-190517-
/O.EXP.KABQ.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-150819T0515Z/
QUAY-
1107 PM MDT TUE AUG 18 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN QUAY COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
1115 PM MDT...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER SMALL
HAIL....GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 
ALBUQUERQUE AT 1.888.386.7637.

LAT...LON 3573 10317 3567 10304 3549 10304 3539 10305
TIME...MOT...LOC 0505Z 321DEG 29KT 3565 10318 

$$

SHOEMAKE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 18, 6:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	47 min
Aug 18, 6:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	50 min
Aug 18, 6:45 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Union	2 hr
Aug 18, 7:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	46 min
Aug 18, 7:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		40 min
Aug 18, 7:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	30 min
Aug 18, 7:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	36 min
Aug 18, 7:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay, Union	46 min
Aug 18, 8:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	49 min
Aug 18, 8:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	118 min
Aug 18, 9:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	51 min
Aug 18, 10:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Union	114 min
Aug 18, 10:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	39 min
Aug 18, 10:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	47 min
Aug 18, 10:52 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Quay	23 min
Aug 18, 11:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	115 min
Aug 18, 11:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	33 min
Aug 18, 11:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	33 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.