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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 339
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 3, 2007, 1:43 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2007, 1:43 PM MDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2007, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 50 kt
All 22 counties
Baca County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Colfax 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), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 3:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 3:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 55 min |
| Jun 3, 3:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 4:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 64 min |
| Jun 3, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 5:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 52 min |
| Jun 3, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 63 min |
| Jun 3, 5:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 41 min |
| Jun 3, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 28 min |
| Jun 3, 7:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 53 min |
| Jun 3, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 7:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 275 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1262 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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, 6:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 12:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Las Animas, Otero | 93 min |
| Jun 3, 5:47 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Las Animas | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 11:42 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Otero | 93 min |
| Jun 3, 12:28 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 9 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 66 min |
| Jun 3, 1:23 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Dewey and 7 more | 67 min |
| Jun 3, 1:58 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:32 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Tillman | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 6:04 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Jefferson, Johnston, Love and 2 more | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 8:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Castro, Crosby, Garza, Hale, Hockley and 5 more | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 9:36 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 16 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 3, 12:17 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Castro, Cochran, Coke and 32 more | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 2:01 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock, Irion and 7 more | 89 min |
| Jun 3, 2:38 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens, Gaines, Garza and 6 more | 67 min |
| Jun 3, 7:37 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bosque, Cherokee, Ellis, Falls and 31 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 10:47 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Panola, Polk and 6 more | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 11:22 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Orange, Tyler | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Irion, McCulloch and 10 more | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 2:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Irion and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Brazos, Coryell, Falls, Grimes, Lampasas and 10 more | 95 min |
| Jun 3, 2:59 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Borden, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 12 more | 91 min |
| Jun 3, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazoria, Brazos and 37 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson, Orange, Sabine, San Augustine | 87 min |
| Jun 3, 4:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Irion and 10 more | 54 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.