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Tornado strikes Clovis, NM
National Weather Service ^ | March 23, 2007

Posted on 03/23/2007 7:07:10 PM PDT by Strategerist

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 800 PM MDT FRI MAR 23 2007

...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN CURRY COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM MDT...

AT 758 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SKYWARN SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED IN CLOVIS...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RANCHVALE AROUND 815 PM MDT...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: clovis; newmexico; tornado
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To: brytlea

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=fdx&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no


21 posted on 03/23/2007 8:29:17 PM PDT by streetpreacher (What if you're wrong?)
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To: Strategerist
Check this one out!

It's a very dangerous storm!

22 posted on 03/23/2007 8:30:01 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (Duncan Hunter for President '08 - A genuine "Reagan Republican" for America!)
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To: NRA2BFree

He went off line about 45 minutes ago unexpectedly. I don't know what happened..if the electric finally went out or what.

Need to try and get a call in.

He runs the areas water cooperative..which gets the water to the farmers. He has access to a lot of earthmoving gear and at least two huge generators that will be moved in sometime in the AM and are big enought to light the town up.


23 posted on 03/23/2007 8:30:38 PM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju, Emeritus)
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To: brytlea
So funny to see people from NM! The state is crawling with my relatives. I hope to retire in Cloudcroft, eventually.

My sister in law is from Cloudcroft. Her parents owned a ski lodge there. She and my brother live in Alabama now, but she sure hates the humidity. They have to come back to NM every summer for a couple of weeks to get away from it. lol

24 posted on 03/23/2007 8:35:16 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (Duncan Hunter for President '08 - A genuine "Reagan Republican" for America!)
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To: Armedanddangerous
He went off line about 45 minutes ago unexpectedly. I don't know what happened..if the electric finally went out or what.

Need to try and get a call in.

He runs the areas water cooperative..which gets the water to the farmers. He has access to a lot of earthmoving gear and at least two huge generators that will be moved in sometime in the AM and are big enought to light the town up.

I heard KOAT interview a woman who lived on the outskirts of Logan who went into town to see the damage and she said the whole town was hit with at least 50 structures either destroyed or damaged. Also, they did say the entire town was without power.

The problem is that the storms are still active with more warnings and more tornadoes on the ground.

Here is the current radar for that area.

25 posted on 03/23/2007 8:45:47 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (Duncan Hunter for President '08 - A genuine "Reagan Republican" for America!)
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To: Strategerist

Thanks for posting this. I just called the relatives and one cousin has not yet checked in. The storm looks like it is going to skirt around my Mom's place in West Texas, but I'm watching the radar.


26 posted on 03/23/2007 8:52:14 PM PDT by Stegall Tx (Woo GIRL!)
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To: NRA2BFree

I lived for 5 years as a kid in Alamogordo, and then graduated from HS in Ruidoso (my Grandparents owned a fishing place where you could catch rainbow trout). I loved Ruidoso, but it's not the same. Cloudcroft still seems to be a sleepy little town, altho it might not be by the time I am ready to retire.
Called my Dad in Roswell tonight. They had hail the past 2 days, and he said they'd had rain, which thrilled him.
susie


27 posted on 03/23/2007 9:34:41 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: NRA2BFree

I just got home from being in the hospital for two weeks, and had to go to bed before I found out just where the tornado's hit. Can you give me anymore info?


28 posted on 03/24/2007 3:37:41 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I would trade a month of Eastern New Mexico dry climate for 10 years of the humidity that we have in Tenn.


29 posted on 03/24/2007 3:44:30 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: mariabush

A series of storms, producing at least 13 tornadoes, destroyed buildings and injured at least a dozen people, several critically, in an area along New Mexico's border with Texas, police said.

The worst damage was reported in the towns of Logan and Clovis, communities about 80 miles apart, police said.

The tornadoes, which were reported during a 5-hour period, damaged several buildings, downed power lines and sparked fires that were later extinguished in Clovis, town police Lt. James Schoeffel said.

Thirteen people from that area were hospitalized at the Plains Regional Medical Center with injuries. Five were in critical condition with head trauma, said Liz Crouch, the center's chief operating officer.

In Logan, three people were taken to a hospital in nearby Tucumcari, while others were treated at a local clinic, State Police Sgt. Andrew Tingwall said. An official at the Dr. Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital refused to say if the hospital was treating any storm victims.

A tornado destroyed roughly two dozen mobile homes and campers in Logan, state police said.

Hours later, another tornado rumbled through Clovis.


30 posted on 03/24/2007 3:50:57 AM PDT by John W
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To: John W

Thanks. I Can't find my cell phone to call my family. I will have to wait until someone calls me to find it.


31 posted on 03/24/2007 4:15:39 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: Stegall Tx
What part of West Texas?

Dallas weather was showing this last night, and talking about it hitting Around Lubbock today, Dallas tomorrow.

32 posted on 03/24/2007 4:19:56 AM PDT by mathluv (Never Forget!)
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To: mariabush

I'm a lifelong resident of Nashville and I've never gotten used to the humidity here. The one thing I dislike about the dry Southwest is that every time I go outside, I get an electric shock with everything I touch ! =8-0


33 posted on 03/24/2007 5:49:31 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

That's true! LOL


34 posted on 03/24/2007 5:58:49 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: Strategerist

How strange. I never figured New Mexico for tornado country.


35 posted on 03/24/2007 6:07:10 AM PDT by LibKill ("RUDY GIULIANI" is just "HILLARY CLINTON" misspelled and wearing a dress.)
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To: LibKill

Pretty rare, but it happens. I saw one that briefly touched down just south of Albuquerque last year. Wasn't a very big one, but interesting all the same.

The weather's been weird this year. Got lot's of snow, then a couple weeks of 60-70 weather, and now it's snowing again. (atleast at my place)


36 posted on 03/24/2007 6:24:08 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Again, how weird is all that?

In Oklahoma one EXPECTS tornados. That is where tornados are born!

In Texas we have learned to live with tornados. Tornados born in Oklahoma come here to die.

But New Mexico?

37 posted on 03/24/2007 6:32:05 AM PDT by LibKill ("RUDY GIULIANI" is just "HILLARY CLINTON" misspelled and wearing a dress.)
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To: LibKill

Usually we don't need tornadoes, the regular winds are enough to drive junked appliances through the air. :)

Now the sun's out. Go figure.


38 posted on 03/24/2007 6:35:07 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: NRA2BFree

Spoke with Mrs. Concho at 010:30 this AM.

She told me Concho is helping move in earth moving gear, a bridge truck, several end loaders, dozers and other important things.

She noted that 25% of the buildings in town are on the ground, but electric came back on line in Logan about 23:00 Friday.

She had no idea regarding casualties, but felt there certainly were some because she saw numerous ambulances moving about.


39 posted on 03/24/2007 9:44:55 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju, Emeritus)
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To: Armedanddangerous
Spoke with Mrs. Concho at 010:30 this AM.

She told me Concho is helping move in earth moving gear, a bridge truck, several end loaders, dozers and other important things.

She noted that 25% of the buildings in town are on the ground, but electric came back on line in Logan about 23:00 Friday.

She had no idea regarding casualties, but felt there certainly were some because she saw numerous ambulances moving about.

It's been all over Fox News this morning. They are showing video of some of the destruction. We had a total of 13 tornadoes on the ground yesterday/last night. There are at least 5 people who were critically injured, and many more in serious condition who were all hospitalized. Besides them, a lot of scrapes and bruises that didn't require hospitalization. This is a very dangerous storm system, and where ever it goes, people had better be alert. This was the worst tornado outbreak in NM since storms have been recorded.

When I was growing up, I used to spend the entire summer with my grandparents in Clovis, and I can remember having to run down into the basement many times. I didn't know much about it but I do remember my grandmother calling them "big dust storms." All my younger years I used to think that's what they were. Had I known then, what I know now, I would have been terrified. LOL

Four years ago, I got hit by a tornado and that was the worst experience of my life, so I don't want to see anyone go through what I did. I pay very close attention to wind, clouds and temperature since that time. When conditions are like they were the day I got hit, I try to give a heads up to people I know who live in tornado areas. That said, tornadoes can happen anywhere if the conditions are right. I live at 6700 feet in the mountains and we're not supposed to get tornadoes here, but unfortunately, we did have one, and it hit my house.

40 posted on 03/24/2007 11:01:04 AM PDT by NRA2BFree (Duncan Hunter for President '08 - A genuine "Reagan Republican" for America!)
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