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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 751

August 28, 20054 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 28, 2005, 12:40 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 2005, 12:40 PM MDT (18:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 2005, 7:17 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 12:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZOtero29 min
Aug 28, 1:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln56 min
Aug 28, 1:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZOtero34 min
Aug 28, 1:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves36 min
Aug 28, 2:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZOtero45 min
Aug 28, 2:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves41 min
Aug 28, 2:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy62 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 211 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2005-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2005-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 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
22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-412 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2403 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 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
Aug 28, 11:56 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea, Lincoln and 2 more2 hr
Aug 28, 3:56 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, De Baca, Eddy, Lincoln, Otero94 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.