Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 433
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2003, 3:35 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2003, 3:35 PM MDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2003, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Chaves County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Loving County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 3:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 51 min |
| May 25, 3:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 61 min |
| May 25, 4:02 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 4 hr |
| May 25, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 60 min |
| May 25, 4:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 52 min |
| May 25, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 61 min |
| May 25, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 58 min |
| May 25, 5:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 4 hr |
| May 25, 5:21 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 4 hr |
| May 25, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 30 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 303 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 12:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln, Otero | 95 min |
| May 25, 1:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colfax, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 1 more | 86 min |
| May 25, 3:20 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea, Lincoln and 3 more | 85 min |
| May 25, 4:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea, Lincoln and 3 more | 114 min |
| May 24, 7:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Armstrong, Bailey, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson and 48 more | 23 min |
| May 24, 7:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Castro, Childress and 30 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 8:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Collin, Cooke, Delta, Denton, Fannin, Franklin and 7 more | 118 min |
| May 24, 9:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Childress, Clay and 26 more | 85 min |
| May 24, 9:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Henderson, Hunt and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 10:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collin and 30 more | 118 min |
| May 25, 12:11 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Archer, Baylor, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 32 more | 2 hr |
| May 25, 12:35 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Cherokee, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 2:42 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis and 10 more | 2 hr |
| May 25, 5:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Irion, Kerr, Kimble and 9 more | 86 min |
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.