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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 549

June 20, 200317 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 20, 2003, 12:30 PM MDT for 17 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 2003, 12:30 PM MDT (18:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2003, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, Otero County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 12:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe57 min
Jun 20, 2:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel50 min
Jun 20, 2:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln33 min
Jun 20, 3:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt48 min
Jun 20, 4:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves49 min
Jun 20, 4:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry36 min
Jun 20, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt53 min
Jun 20, 5:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves45 min
Jun 20, 5:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea60 min
Jun 20, 5:24 PM MDTTornado WarningABQRoosevelt36 min
Jun 20, 5:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves43 min
Jun 20, 6:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt49 min
Jun 20, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea32 min
Jun 20, 6:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt40 min
Jun 20, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea45 min
Jun 20, 6:46 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea3 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2003-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 92 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2003-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 166 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
92 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-216 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 11:14 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Harding and 7 more2 hr
Jun 20, 2:21 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln and 4 more114 min
Jun 20, 5:04 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 7 more86 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.