[PHX-Skywarn] RE: [WX7PHX] New Mexcio Tornados
Lee Levine
kd7eth at cox.net
Sat Mar 31 20:14:41 EST 2007
Assuming they even care about such things.
They usually only care about who contributes to their election campaigns.
Lee
--
Lee Levine KD7ETH; E.M.T.
Phoenix, Az.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards,
if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. --Ronald Reagan
(1911 - 2004)
----- Original Message -----
From: "DON I BRAZIE" <dibrazie at msn.com>
To: <wx7phx at mailman.qth.net>; <phx-skywarn at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 17:51
Subject: [PHX-Skywarn] RE: [WX7PHX] New Mexcio Tornados
>
> Maybe this should be sent to our legistators who are hesitating on the
> HOA bill.
>
> Don
> ______________________________________________________________
>
> From: Allen Sklar <ajsklar at w7as.com>
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> Subject: [WX7PHX] New Mexcio Tornados
> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:00:42 -0700
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> >
> >
> >
> >Hello All
> >
> >Via the ARRL Newsletter...
> >
> >Allen Sklar
> >Tempe AZ USA
> >
> >
> >
> >***************
> >The ARRL Letter
> >Vol. 26, No. 13
> >March 30, 2007
> >***************
> >
> >
> >
> >==>HAM RADIO READINESS PROVIDES SAFETY MARGIN IN NEW MEXICO
> TORNADO
> >OUTBREAK
> >
> >Dozens of Amateur Radio volunteers in New Mexico did what they do
> best
> >Friday, March 23, when nasty weather threatening eastern New
> Mexico
> >eventually spawned 13 tornados, from Tatum to Logan. A day before
> the
> >storms, SKYWARN Coordinator and National Weather Service (NWS)
> >meteorologist
> >Keith Hayes, KC5KH, at the Albuquerque NWS office (WX5ABQ) warned
> New
> >Mexico's Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) district emergency
> >coordinators and county emergency managers of the potential for
> severe
> >weather. ARES teams and SKYWARN weather spotters consequently were
> >already
> >in the field and ready for action when the string of tornados
> struck.
> >The
> >early warning, aided by trained spotters' accurate
> minute-by-minute
> >reports
> >to the NWS and local authorities, provided an additional margin of
> >safety
> >for residents.
> >
> >"The teamwork by the ARES teams, support from the surrounding
> county
> >emergency managers, the NWS forecasts and real-time radar support,
> >WA5IHL's
> >Mega-Link [repeater system] and numerous SKYWARN observations
> saved
> >lives,"
> >Jay Miller, WA5WHN, observed. During the weather emergency,
> Amateur
> >Radio
> >volunteers relayed real-time weather information to NWS offices in
> >Albuquerque and in Midland, Texas.
> >
> >After Chaves County District Emergency Coordinator Alf Lindsey,
> W5ALL,
> >took
> >note of darkening skies early Friday afternoon, he opened a
> SKYWARN net.
> >More than 30 hams in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas
> relayed
> >their
> >weather observations through the net to the Albuquerque NWS
> office.
> >Robert
> >Tice, W5TIC, reported in with a tornado spotting west of Tatum at
> about
> >5
> >PM. Jim Morrison, KM5BS, observed a large tornado on the ground
> just
> >south
> >of Roosevelt County at about 5:45 PM. That prompted the first of
> many
> >tornado warnings for the counties along the Texas-New Mexico state
> line.
> >
> >The city of Clovis was especially hard hit. "We have always
> trained for
> >a
> >single tornado, but not eight of them at the same time," Blaine
> Smith,
> >KB5UOT, in Clovis commented afterward. The NWS issued the first
> tornado
> >warning for Clovis at about 7:30 PM, and a tornado struck the city
> >about 15
> >minutes later. Saundra Creiglow, KC5EGP, handled net control
> duties in
> >Clovis as the storms approached. The Eastern New Mexico Amateur
> Radio
> >Club
> >had three teams operating in and around Clovis before and after
> the
> >twisters.
> >
> >Using the KK5OV EchoLink node, hams in Clovis established a backup
> >connection with Jory McIntosh, KJ5RM, at the Fort Worth National
> Weather
> >Service Office. McIntosh was able to pinpoint the exact course
> >destructive
> >tornados that hit the city.
> >
> >The New Mexico State Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and the
> >Bernalillo
> >County EOC activated. During the tornados, however, the state EOC
> lost
> >contact with Clovis, Logan, Texico, Carlsbad, and Portales.
> Sandoval
> >County
> >DEC Mike Scales, K5SCA, was able to relay information from hams in
> >tornado-stricken areas to the state EOC via the state-wide
> Mega-Link
> >repeater system. Scales also kept the state EOC up to speed on
> localized
> >flooding in Carlsbad.
> >
> >The American Red Cross requested Amateur Radio assistance to staff
> >shelters
> >in Logan and Clovis. John English, WB6QKF, was on the air from the
> >Albuquerque Red Cross office to assist in setting up those
> shelters.
> >
> >The tornados carved a 4.5 mile swath across Clovis. Thirty-five
> >residents
> >were injured badly enough to need hospitalization. In Logan,
> two-dozen
> >mobile homes were destroyed. Tatum experienced four tornados in
> the
> >span of
> >a half-hour. Electrical power and telephone outages were reported.
> >Interstate 70 was shut down between Portales and Clovis.
> >
> >More severe weather popped across eastern New Mexico and western
> Texas
> >over
> >the weekend. Spotters were active early March 25 near Lubbock,
> Texas, as
> >possible tornados were reported. Showers and thunderstorms were in
> this
> >week's forecast for West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. -- New
> >Mexico
> >PIO Charlie Christman, K5CEC, and other reports
> >
> >
> >
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