1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 30, 2:05 PM MST, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 305 PM MDT THU AUG 30 2001 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED AGAIN TODAY ACROSS THE ENTIRE STATE. METEOROLOGICAL SITUATIONS IS IDENTICAL TO YESTERDAY WITH WEAK FLOW ALOFT...AND CONDITIONALLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS AT THE SURFACE. THUS...SCATTERED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST INTO THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. UPPER LEVEL RIDGE AXIS REMAINS TO THE WEST...WITH ONLY MINUTE AMOUNTS OF DRYING AFFECTING THE WESTERN BORDER OF NEW MEXICO. THETA-E RIDGE REMAINS OVER A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEW MEXICO. BASICALLY...RESIDUAL MOISTURE...DIURNAL HEATING AND WEAK FLOW WILL RESULT IN CONTINUATION OF SCATTERED AFTERNOON/EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SURFACE COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO CLIP THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE STATE LATE TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY...WHICH COULD SUPPRESS DAYTIME HIGH TEMPS AND PROVIDE AN EARLY LIFTING MECHANISM FOR THUNDERSTORM PRODUCTION. EAST WIND MAY BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY/FRIDAY NIGHT...BUT HAVE DECIDED NOT MENTION THIS IN ZONES. WANT TO LOOK AT IT AGAIN FRIDAY MORNING TO BETTER ASSESS THE DEPTH OF AIRMASS AND CONVECTIVE EFFECTS. EXTENDED FORECAST READS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME WITH SCATTERED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL WESTERLY FLOW CAN SWEEP THE STATE CLEAR OF RESIDUAL MONSOON MOISTURE. MRF SUGGESTS AN IMPRESSIVE FRONT MAY MOVE OVER THE STATE BY NEXT THURSDAY. HAVE MENTIONED BREEZY CONDITIONS IN THE LAST PERIOD...MAY BE A LONG SHOT BUT THIS IS THE TIME OF YEAR TO BE LOOKING FOR A PATTERN CHANGE. ABQ BB 059/084 059/084 060 33313 SAF BB 051/081 052/082 053 33323 TCC BB 058/083 059/080 061 33423 .ABQ...NONE
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Deputies reported a brief landspout tornado over open rangeland near Yeso.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Mexico in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for New Mexico, 2001Warnings in New Mexico, August 2001
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