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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 604
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2005, 1:00 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico; 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2005, 1:00 AM MDT (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2005, 5:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Terry County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:03 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 1:43 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 32 min |
| Jul 5, 1:50 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 40 min |
| Jul 5, 1:56 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 34 min |
| Jul 5, 2:17 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 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 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 1385 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3207 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 4, 8:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 67 min |
| Jul 5, 12:48 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lea | 27 min |
| Jul 5, 2:58 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lea | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 12:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union | 56 min |
| Jul 5, 1:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union | 8 hr |
| Jul 4, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Camp, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 4, 6:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Borden, Callahan, Coke, Concho, Fisher, Glasscock and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Fisher and 15 more | 114 min |
| Jul 4, 8:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Camp, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree and 2 more | 84 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.