Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 280
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 15, 2005, 3:35 PM MDT for 9 counties in New Mexico; Culberson County, El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2005, 3:35 PM MDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2005, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Culberson County, TX, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 57 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 339 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
- 209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 986 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 6:24 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln | 96 min |
| May 15, 2:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Doña Ana, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lincoln and 3 more | 83 min |
| May 15, 11:24 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Edwards, Frio, Kinney, Maverick, Medina and 4 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.