Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 751
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.
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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 12:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 29 min |
| Aug 28, 1:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 56 min |
| Aug 28, 1:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 34 min |
| Aug 28, 1:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 36 min |
| Aug 28, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 45 min |
| Aug 28, 2:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 41 min |
| Aug 28, 2:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 62 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.
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 11:56 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea, Lincoln and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 28, 3:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Lincoln, Otero | 94 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.