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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 158
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 17, 2005, 2:20 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 17, 2005, 2:20 PM MDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2005, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 63 min |
| Apr 17, 5:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Quay | 54 min |
| Apr 17, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 55 min |
| Apr 17, 5:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 61 min |
| Apr 17, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 62 min |
| Apr 17, 6:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 7:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 90 min |
| Apr 17, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 52 min |
| Apr 17, 7:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 50 min |
| Apr 17, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 45 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 919 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 1:25 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 85 min |
| Apr 17, 1:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea and 2 more | 2 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.