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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 374

June 9, 20074 counties in Colorado; 27 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 9, 2007, 3:48 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; 27 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 2007, 3:48 PM MDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2007, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 33 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Grant County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, Luna County, NM, Mora County, NM, Otero County, NM, Quay County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Sierra County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM, Valencia County, NM, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
20%
Ten or more severe hail reports
70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 4:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo58 min
Jun 9, 4:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers96 min
Jun 9, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln44 min
Jun 9, 4:17 PM MDTTornado WarningABQSanta Fe43 min
Jun 9, 4:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZLuna55 min
Jun 9, 4:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves63 min
Jun 9, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax61 min
Jun 9, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZEl Paso53 min
Jun 9, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSanta Fe58 min
Jun 9, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZLuna43 min
Jun 9, 5:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora, San Miguel64 min
Jun 9, 5:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo22 min
Jun 9, 5:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro54 min
Jun 9, 5:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln54 min
Jun 9, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance61 min
Jun 9, 5:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Union58 min
Jun 9, 6:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion59 min
Jun 9, 7:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding57 min
Jun 9, 7:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel57 min
Jun 9, 7:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZOtero34 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 108 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2007-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 206 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2007-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 130 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
206 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-206 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 1:35 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLas Animas115 min
Jun 9, 5:55 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCurry65 min
Jun 9, 12:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 21 more89 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.