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Landspout Tornado Near The Industrial Park North Of Artesia, NM Forwarded To Me On 7-20-2010 By Danny Kiper Of Artesia, NM Landspout Tornado Photo Sent To Me By Carrie Greenwood Of Artesia, NM "My aunt and uncle (Danny & Karen Forlines ) took this picture on our familie's 120 acres ne artesia ! ( bolton rd & mill rd)" Yesterday was just downright hot and humid. High temperatures across SE NM for the most part were in the mid 90's. Combine these temperatures with dew point temperatures in the low-mid 70's (you won't see this very often around here), or relative humidity values around 40%-50%, and you come up with heat index values of 105-110 . We are not used to this kind of heat and humidity, and unfortunately it is forecast to continue into the weekend. Around 4 PM yesterday afternoon, a thunderstorm rapidly developed near Artesia. This thunderstorm then quickly became severe. Eddy County Skywarn Spotters reported a landspout tornado just nor...