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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 359

May 30, 20056 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 30, 2005, 5:50 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 2005, 5:50 PM MDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2005, 12:00 AM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 5:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves65 min
May 30, 6:31 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves44 min
May 30, 6:59 PM MDTTornado WarningABQHarding, Quay46 min
May 30, 7:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, Quay57 min
May 30, 7:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves61 min
May 30, 7:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, De Baca42 min
May 30, 7:44 PM MDTTornado WarningABQHarding, Quay50 min
May 30, 7:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca59 min
May 30, 7:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt67 min
May 30, 7:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves64 min
May 30, 8:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay59 min
May 30, 8:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves50 min
May 30, 8:23 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves37 min
May 30, 8:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca62 min
May 30, 8:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay59 min
May 30, 10:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt61 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 255 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 2005-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 39 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2005-05-30The 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
39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1740 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
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 10:32 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, Taos118 min
May 30, 1:30 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCColfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel, Union8 hr
May 30, 2:05 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, De Baca, Lincoln, Otero115 min
May 30, 4:45 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel, Union2 hr

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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.