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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 323

June 1, 200710 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2007, 2:54 PM MDT for 10 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 2007, 2:54 PM MDT (20:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2007, 7:47 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt

Counties Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
10%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
5%
Ten or more severe wind reports
20%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
Ten or more severe hail reports
50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 3:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay56 min
Jun 1, 3:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax62 min
Jun 1, 4:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding66 min
Jun 1, 4:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry58 min
Jun 1, 5:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt64 min
Jun 1, 6:01 PM MDTTornado WarningABQRoosevelt44 min
Jun 1, 6:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay55 min
Jun 1, 6:43 PM MDTTornado WarningABQRoosevelt47 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 201 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1384 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1384 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-249 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1230 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
383 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 12:45 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCurry, Quay, Roosevelt60 min
Jun 1, 4:30 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCurry60 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.