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Tornado Watch 524

June 7, 19988 counties in New Mexico; 17 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 7, 1998, 4:30 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1998, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1998, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties

Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Midland County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 4:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Roosevelt45 min
Jun 7, 4:41 PM MDTTornado WarningABQDe Baca44 min
Jun 7, 4:51 PM MDTTornado WarningABQQuay49 min
Jun 7, 5:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry49 min
Jun 7, 5:11 PM MDTTornado WarningABQQuay49 min
Jun 7, 5:25 PM MDTTornado WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt50 min
Jun 7, 6:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay49 min
Jun 7, 6:07 PM MDTTornado WarningABQCurry33 min
Jun 7, 6:33 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBParmer62 min
Jun 7, 6:37 PM MDTTornado WarningABQCurry33 min
Jun 7, 7:31 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBCastro, Parmer64 min

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 212 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1998-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1998-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 271 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-584 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
913 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
271 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 2:15 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCColfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel, Union7 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Texas, 1998Tornado Watches in New Mexico, 1998Every tornado watch in 1998

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.