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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 360

May 30, 20055 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 30, 2005, 8:15 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 2005, 8:15 PM MDT (02:15 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2005, 2:00 AM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties

Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Curry County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 8:29 PM MDTTornado WarningDDCMorton31 min
May 30, 8:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton12 min
May 30, 9:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOldham41 min
May 30, 10:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt61 min
May 31, 12:09 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt27 min
May 31, 12:10 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran65 min
May 31, 1:14 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran, Hockley61 min
May 31, 1:20 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry40 min
May 31, 1:23 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey67 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 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 87 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2005-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 172 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2005-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 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
172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 7:57 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Elbert, El Paso, Lincoln, Morgan and 2 more63 min
May 30, 10:45 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Kiowa, Lincoln, Prowers60 min
May 31, 12:32 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Prowers88 min
May 31, 12:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chase, Clay, Cowley, Dickinson, Geary and 18 more118 min
May 30, 8:49 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt86 min
May 31, 12:05 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCurry, De Baca, Harding, Lea, Quay, Roosevelt115 min
May 31, 12:40 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCColfax, Curry, De Baca, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt8 hr
May 31, 2:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColfax, Curry, De Baca, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt115 min
May 31, 5:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColfax, Curry, De Baca, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt2 hr
May 31, 3:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeckham, Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 14 more8 hr
May 31, 5:46 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCaddo, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 13 more89 min
May 31, 1:40 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 18 more4 hr
May 31, 4:33 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 18 more87 min
May 31, 4:33 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Dawson and 20 more87 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.