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Tornado Watch 484
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 16, 2004, 2:00 PM MDT for 7 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Oklahoma; 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2004, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2004, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 30 min |
| Jun 16, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 81 min |
| Jun 16, 5:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 6:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 6:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Dallam | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 6:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Sherman | 84 min |
| Jun 16, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 68 min |
| Jun 16, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 85 min |
| Jun 16, 7:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 26 min |
| Jun 16, 7:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 55 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1446 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1386 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 161958
SEL4
SPC WW 162000
NMZ000-OKZ000-TXZ000-170200-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 484
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
300 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE
TEXAS PANHANDLE
EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 300 PM UNTIL
900 PM CDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 75 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND
SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 65 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF RATON NEW MEXICO
TO 105 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF AMARILLO TEXAS.
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 482...WW 483...
DISCUSSION...VERY UNSTABLE SELY UPSLOPE WILL SUPPORT SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER HIGHER TERRAIN NERN NM. STORMS WILL
THEN MOVE/PROPAGATE E/SE AND WITH VEERING SHEAR PROFILES SUPERCELLS
ARE EXPECTED. IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS....ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE LIKELY.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 27025.
...HALES
365,1045 365,0995 344,0995 344,1045SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 12:12 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Union | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.