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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 277

May 10, 2002Lea County, New Mexico; 13 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 10, 2002, 4:00 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 2002, 4:00 PM MDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 2002, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Loving County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 4:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos33 min
May 10, 4:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos61 min
May 10, 5:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster56 min
May 10, 5:27 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos4 hr
May 10, 5:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea52 min
May 10, 6:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos59 min
May 10, 6:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea59 min
May 10, 6:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos61 min
May 10, 7:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews56 min
May 10, 7:46 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFPecos29 min
May 10, 8:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos44 min
May 10, 8:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos48 min

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 2002-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 46 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 2002-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 373 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
46 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-494 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
373 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
344 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.4

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 7:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCrockett, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble and 9 more6 hr
May 9, 8:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Collin and 34 more5 hr
May 9, 10:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 11 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.