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Tornado in Lincoln County, New Mexico
Tornado May 31, 2023 · Lincoln County, New Mexico
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
A storm chaser shared a video on social media of a tornado near the ghost town of Lon, NM along NM Highway 247. The tornado was in a very remote area causing no damage to structures or crops, and was reported to have lasted five to ten minutes.
The wider storm
Sufficient lift ahead of an upper low over California and Arizona and Gulf moisture ahead of the dryline across eastern New Mexico allowed widespread showers and storms to initiate around midday. Several supercells produced large and severe hail along with two tornadoes in the central and south-central highlands of Guadalupe and Lincoln County. Later that evening, training supercells grew upscale into a convective complex with flash flooding across east central New Mexico.
Began near Ramon (34.0800, -105.1000).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1092965. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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