Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 357
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 30, 2005, 1:30 PM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado; 5 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2005, 1:30 PM MDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2005, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 214 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 3:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 42 min |
| May 30, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Las Animas | 55 min |
| May 30, 4:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 61 min |
| May 30, 4:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 31 min |
| May 30, 4:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas | 65 min |
| May 30, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 43 min |
| May 30, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 48 min |
| May 30, 5:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 50 min |
| May 30, 5:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 29 min |
| May 30, 6:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 54 min |
| May 30, 6:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 64 min |
| May 30, 6:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay | 46 min |
| May 30, 7:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 65 min |
| May 30, 7:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 50 min |
| May 30, 7:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay | 50 min |
| May 30, 7:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 71 min |
| May 30, 7:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 34 min |
| May 30, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 46 min |
| May 30, 8:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 91 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 301931
SEL7
SPC WW 301931
COZ000-NMZ000-OKZ000-TXZ000-310300-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 357
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
230 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
SOUTHEAST COLORADO
NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
WESTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE
WESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE
EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 230 PM UNTIL 1000
PM CDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND
GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE
AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 70 STATUTE MILES
EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF LA JUNTA
COLORADO TO 60 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF LAS VEGAS NEW MEXICO. FOR
A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 356...
DISCUSSION...DESTABILIZATION ONGOING E OF MOUNTAINS SERN CO/NERN NM
AHEAD OF VIGOROUS UPPER TROUGH. SHEAR PROFILES BECOMING FAVORABLE
FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SUPERCELLS. INTIMAL STORMS FORMING OVER HIGHER
TERRAIN AND THEN WILL MOVE INTO FAVORABLE CONDITIONS TO BECOME
SEVERE ACROSS WATCH AREA. ALONG WITH VERY LARGE HAIL...ISOLATED
TORNADOES ARE LIKELY WITH ANY SUPERCELL.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2.5 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE
WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO
500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24030.
...HALES
382,1020 351,1025 351,1052 382,1043SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 9:39 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Delta, Dolores, Garfield, Mesa, Moffat, Montrose and 3 more | 2 hr |
| May 30, 10:32 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Huerfano, Las Animas, Mineral and 2 more | 118 min |
| May 30, 10:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archuleta, Conejos, Delta, Dolores, Garfield, Gunnison and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 12:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Delta, Dolores, Garfield, Gunnison, Hinsdale, La Plata and 9 more | 117 min |
| May 30, 4:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more | 2 hr |
| May 30, 4:57 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, El Paso, Kit Carson and 8 more | 63 min |
| May 30, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, El Paso, Kiowa, Lincoln and 3 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 2:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln, Otero | 115 min |
| May 30, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt | 6 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.