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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 331

May 25, 200510 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2005, 1:25 PM MDT for 10 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 2005, 1:25 PM MDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2005, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel31 min
May 25, 5:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe61 min
May 25, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel46 min
May 25, 6:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca54 min
May 25, 6:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe61 min
May 25, 6:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe61 min
May 25, 7:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Quay64 min
May 25, 7:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca46 min
May 25, 8:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry63 min
May 25, 8:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Roosevelt44 min
May 25, 9:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, De Baca, Roosevelt60 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 194 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 2005-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 2005-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
4682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 12:56 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 3 more2 hr
May 25, 4:18 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 4 more117 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.