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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 574
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 1, 2005, 4:40 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2005, 4:40 PM MDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2005, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Terry County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 64 min |
| Jul 1, 5:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 65 min |
| Jul 1, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 53 min |
| Jul 1, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 63 min |
| Jul 1, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 40 min |
| Jul 1, 6:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 57 min |
| Jul 1, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 56 min |
| Jul 1, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 53 min |
| Jul 1, 7:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 53 min |
| Jul 1, 8:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 41 min |
| Jul 1, 8:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Curry | 9 min |
| Jul 1, 8:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 55 min |
| Jul 1, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 30 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -655 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2158 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 1:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 30, 10:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hansford, Ochiltree, Sherman | 118 min |
| Jul 1, 1:10 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, Wheeler | 7 hr |
| Jul 1, 2:24 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, Wheeler | 96 min |
| Jul 1, 8:55 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Collin, Cooke, Delta, Denton, Fannin and 10 more | 65 min |
| Jul 1, 11:10 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bosque, Brown, Camp, Cherokee, Comanche and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 5:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more | 90 min |
| Jul 1, 5:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baylor, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Castro, Coke and 33 more | 83 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.