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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 741

August 11, 200413 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 11, 2004, 2:35 PM MDT for 13 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 11, 2004, 2:35 PM MDT (20:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 2004, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
5 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, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Taos County, NM, Union County, NM

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 4:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax63 min
Aug 11, 5:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel49 min
Aug 11, 5:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax49 min
Aug 11, 7:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln, Socorro43 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 2004-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 61 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2004-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 164 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
61 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-421 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2167 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
244 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
Aug 11, 1:41 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe and 9 more94 min
Aug 11, 5:27 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColfax, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln, Mora and 1 more2 hr

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.