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Tornado Watch 523
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 7, 1998, 2:15 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1998, 2:15 PM MDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1998, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 199 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 58 min |
| Jun 7, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 63 min |
| Jun 7, 7:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 59 min |
| Jun 7, 7:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 46 min |
| Jun 7, 7:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 64 min |
| Jun 7, 8:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 56 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 236 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 1:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Crowley, Denver and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 7, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea and 2 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.