Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 382

June 4, 20026 counties in New Mexico; Dallam County, Hartley County, Oldham County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 4, 2002, 4:00 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; Dallam County, Hartley County, Oldham County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

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

Counties Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Dallam County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 4:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel49 min
Jun 4, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay, San Miguel45 min
Jun 4, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel58 min
Jun 4, 5:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay45 min
Jun 4, 5:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Quay51 min
Jun 4, 5:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOldham65 min
Jun 4, 6:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay27 min
Jun 4, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith, Oldham63 min
Jun 4, 7:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry44 min
Jun 4, 7:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry32 min

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4073 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 159 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
4073 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
958 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 1:30 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Floyd and 10 more6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2002

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.