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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 159

April 17, 20058 counties in New Mexico; 13 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 17, 2005, 3:35 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 17, 2005, 3:35 PM MDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired
Apr 17, 2005, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties

Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX, Loving County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 4:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves63 min
Apr 17, 4:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy56 min
Apr 17, 5:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Quay54 min
Apr 17, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy60 min
Apr 17, 6:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy60 min
Apr 17, 6:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer66 min
Apr 17, 6:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith31 min
Apr 17, 7:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy55 min
Apr 17, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith45 min
Apr 17, 8:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy60 min
Apr 17, 8:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving, Reeves54 min
Apr 17, 9:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves58 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-04-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-04-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 1:25 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCUnion3 hr
Apr 17, 1:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy and 16 more2 hr
Apr 17, 2:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCHarding, Quay, Union8 hr
Apr 17, 5:28 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea and 2 more2 hr
Apr 17, 5:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHarding, Quay, Union85 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.