Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 355

May 25, 20009 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Oklahoma; 6 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2000, 2:45 PM MDT for 9 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Oklahoma; 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2000, 2:45 PM MDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2000, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Castro County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 2:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	50 min
May 25, 3:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	41 min
May 25, 4:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	65 min
May 25, 5:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	57 min
May 25, 5:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	43 min
May 25, 5:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley	50 min
May 25, 6:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	35 min
May 25, 6:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	44 min
May 25, 7:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Roosevelt	65 min
May 25, 7:36 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	24 min
May 25, 7:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Parmer	37 min

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 473 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -338 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

442 
WWUS9 KMKC 252014
SEL5  
MKC WW 252014
NMZ000-OKZ000-TXZ000-260200-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 355
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
214 PM MDT THU MAY 25 2000

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

   EASTERN NEW MEXICO                         
   WESTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE                           
   WESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE                             

EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 245 PM UNTIL 800
PM MDT.

HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70
MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 80 STATUTE MILES
EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF CANNON AFB
CLOVIS NEW MEXICO TO 45 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF CLAYTON NEW
MEXICO.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. 
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...  CONTINUE...WW 352...WW 353...WW 354...

DISCUSSION...THUNDERSTORMS OVER ERN NM SHOULD BECOME SEVERE AS THEY
SPREAD TOWARD W TX. SUPERCELLS ARE LIKELY WITH THE MAIN THREAT
BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.


AVIATION...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT
TO 2 INCHES.  EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60
KNOTS.  A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500.  MEAN STORM
MOTION VECTOR 24030.


...VESCIO

370,1020 341,1021 341,1050 370,1045

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 8:00 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 9 more	5 hr
May 24, 8:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 5 more	6 hr
May 24, 11:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Creek, Garfield, Garvin and 21 more	5 hr
May 25, 4:15 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Jackson	5 hr
May 25, 5:30 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beaver, Harmon, Texas	6 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.