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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 526

June 27, 20048 counties in New Mexico; 7 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 27, 2004, 3:50 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 2004, 3:50 PM MDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2004, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 5:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe53 min
Jun 27, 5:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay62 min
Jun 27, 6:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry36 min
Jun 27, 7:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt46 min
Jun 27, 8:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca59 min
Jun 27, 8:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey44 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 2004-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-43 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 27, 3:32 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, Curry, De Baca, Harding, Lea, Quay and 1 more118 min
Jun 27, 7:55 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAngelina, Hardin, Houston, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton and 8 more2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2004

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.