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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 581

July 6, 20046 counties in New Mexico; 20 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 6, 2004, 2:55 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 2004, 2:55 PM MDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2004, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties

Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Union County, NM, Bailey County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 6:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca57 min
Jul 6, 6:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca61 min
Jul 6, 7:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt41 min
Jul 6, 8:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt44 min
Jul 6, 8:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt41 min
Jul 6, 8:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb68 min
Jul 6, 8:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey29 min
Jul 6, 8:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran56 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 291 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 2004-07-06Temperature 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 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 2004-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3737 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-13 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
Jul 6, 2:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 4 more2 hr
Jul 5, 10:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGray, Hansford, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts and 1 more59 min
Jul 5, 10:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCGray, Hansford, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts4 hr
Jul 6, 12:16 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHansford, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, Wheeler119 min
Jul 6, 2:50 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCWilbarger5 hr
Jul 6, 4:18 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCWichita, Wilbarger117 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.