Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 332
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2007, 3:22 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2007, 3:22 PM MDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2007, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 25 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 3:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 4:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 67 min |
| Jun 2, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 4:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 5:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont, Pueblo | 54 min |
| Jun 2, 5:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 69 min |
| Jun 2, 6:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 6:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 7:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 7:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 7:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 43 min |
| Jun 2, 8:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 8:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 97 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 280 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
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 879 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Las Animas and 2 more | 93 min |
| Jun 1, 6:27 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colfax, Curry, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 7:25 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Delaware, Kay, Mayes, Nowata, Osage and 4 more | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 6:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Clay, Haskell, Jack, Jones, Montague and 6 more | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 7:24 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 19 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 19 more | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 10:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bosque, Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis and 16 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:34 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 45 more | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 1:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche and 17 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:03 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche and 19 more | 57 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.