Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 452
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 26, 2007, 2:31 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2007, 2:31 PM MDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 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 36 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO, Colfax County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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.
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
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
41 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 3:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 3:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 84 min |
| Jun 26, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 3:20 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Custer, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 3:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 53 min |
| Jun 26, 4:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Pueblo | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 4:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 4:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 4:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 56 min |
| Jun 26, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 5:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 53 min |
| Jun 26, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 5:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 5:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 67 min |
| Jun 26, 5:38 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 5:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 96 min |
| Jun 26, 6:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Otero | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 39 min |
| Jun 26, 6:44 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Bent, Crowley, Otero, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 6:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 67 min |
| Jun 26, 6:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 21 min |
| Jun 26, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 7:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 7:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 8:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 57 min |
| Jun 26, 8:02 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 3 hr |
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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 295 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
- 2091 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 920 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Las Animas | 87 min |
| Jun 26, 4:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, Curry, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt | 9 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Love, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:08 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Burnet, Collin, Coryell, Dallas and 20 more | 97 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.