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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 419

June 6, 20059 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 18 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 6, 2005, 1:40 PM MDT for 9 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 2005, 1:40 PM MDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2005, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties

Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Gaines 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, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 2:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, San Miguel55 min
Jun 6, 3:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding54 min
Jun 6, 3:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves62 min
Jun 6, 3:57 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves48 min
Jun 6, 4:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Quay56 min
Jun 6, 4:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Union48 min
Jun 6, 4:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy, Lea57 min
Jun 6, 4:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHartley84 min
Jun 6, 4:41 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves49 min
Jun 6, 4:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam57 min
Jun 6, 4:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry64 min
Jun 6, 5:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay52 min
Jun 6, 5:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves67 min
Jun 6, 5:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea61 min
Jun 6, 5:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt59 min
Jun 6, 5:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOldham80 min
Jun 6, 5:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry24 min
Jun 6, 5:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer62 min
Jun 6, 6:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBYoakum62 min
Jun 6, 6:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea57 min
Jun 6, 6:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro20 min
Jun 6, 6:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt64 min
Jun 6, 6:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas63 min
Jun 6, 6:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAMoore43 min
Jun 6, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey63 min
Jun 6, 7:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran61 min
Jun 6, 7:30 PM MDTTornado WarningABQRoosevelt34 min
Jun 6, 7:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, Roosevelt58 min
Jun 6, 7:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey53 min
Jun 6, 7:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey53 min
Jun 6, 8:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb61 min
Jun 6, 8:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro59 min
Jun 6, 8:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry22 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 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 233 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 12:00Z on 2005-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 88 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 12:00Z on 2005-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 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
88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-363 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1931 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 1:20 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Harding and 4 more55 min
Jun 5, 6:11 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCaddo, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 3 more94 min
Jun 5, 9:41 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 8 more94 min
Jun 5, 10:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Jefferson and 6 more4 hr
Jun 6, 1:16 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Craig, Grant, Kay, Mayes, Noble and 7 more89 min
Jun 6, 11:38 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, LeFlore, Sequoyah2 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.