Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 558
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 17, 2008, 12:59 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2008, 12:59 PM MDT (18:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2008, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 24 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, 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, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 1:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 63 min |
| Jun 17, 2:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 60 min |
| Jun 17, 2:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 56 min |
| Jun 17, 2:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Harding | 42 min |
| Jun 17, 2:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 59 min |
| Jun 17, 2:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 41 min |
| Jun 17, 2:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 27 min |
| Jun 17, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 60 min |
| Jun 17, 3:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 55 min |
| Jun 17, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 60 min |
| Jun 17, 3:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 84 min |
| Jun 17, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Prowers | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 4:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter, Randall | 97 min |
| Jun 17, 4:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas | 56 min |
| Jun 17, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 66 min |
| Jun 17, 5:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 24 min |
| Jun 17, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore and 3 more | 92 min |
| Jun 17, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 66 min |
| Jun 17, 6:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 34 min |
| Jun 17, 7:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 53 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 752 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 12:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more | 57 min |
| Jun 17, 5:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 12 more | 89 min |
| Jun 17, 4:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt, Union | 90 min |
| Jun 16, 8:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Blaine, Canadian, Cleveland, Custer and 16 more | 92 min |
| Jun 17, 8:02 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Carter, Coal, Cotton, Jefferson, Johnston and 4 more | 58 min |
| Jun 17, 1:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 22 more | 61 min |
| Jun 17, 4:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Briscoe, Childress, Clay, Cottle and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 10:35 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor | 55 min |
| Jun 17, 10:57 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Cherokee, Dallas, Delta, Ellis, Freestone and 17 more | 33 min |
| Jun 17, 11:12 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Camp, Cherokee, Ellis, Franklin and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:11 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Cherokee, Harrison, Houston, Jasper, Leon and 14 more | 64 min |
| Jun 17, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 7 hr |
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.