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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 760

October 23, 20006 counties in New Mexico; 25 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 23, 2000, 11:45 AM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Oct 23, 2000, 11:45 AM MDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired
Oct 23, 2000, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties

Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 23, 11:58 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith, Oldham62 min
Oct 23, 12:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt61 min
Oct 23, 12:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer60 min
Oct 23, 1:11 PM MDTTornado WarningAMAPotter, Randall34 min
Oct 23, 1:14 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt2 hr
Oct 23, 2:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith37 min
Oct 23, 3:10 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQChaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Quay and 3 more3 hr
Oct 23, 3:37 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMADeaf Smith, Oldham3 hr
Oct 23, 4:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt50 min

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 201 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 2000-10-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1362 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 2000-10-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 201 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
1362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
6.3

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 23, 4:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrewster, Crane, Ector, Jeff Davis, Loving, Midland and 7 more5 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.