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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 604

July 19, 20094 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 19, 2009, 1:50 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 2009, 1:50 PM MDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2009, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 22 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, Hartley County, TX

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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
10%
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
60%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 3:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora, San Miguel38 min
Jul 19, 3:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion57 min
Jul 19, 4:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora, San Miguel60 min
Jul 19, 4:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Kiowa61 min
Jul 19, 4:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Bent, Las Animas56 min
Jul 19, 4:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas38 min
Jul 19, 5:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa31 min
Jul 19, 5:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, Torrance54 min
Jul 19, 5:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion55 min
Jul 19, 5:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel55 min
Jul 19, 5:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Las Animas40 min
Jul 19, 6:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel38 min
Jul 19, 6:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Torrance56 min
Jul 19, 7:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, De Baca, Lincoln47 min
Jul 19, 8:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith, Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter, Randall62 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 1:08 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBent, Crowley, Las Animas, Otero2 hr
Jul 19, 5:34 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca56 min
Jul 18, 8:05 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLea55 min
Jul 18, 6:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBriscoe, Childress, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 15 more5 hr
Jul 19, 1:58 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Coke, Concho, Cottle, Crockett, Crosby and 25 more2 hr
Jul 19, 1:06 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Cherokee, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis and 16 more54 min
Jul 19, 1:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee and 34 more6 hr
Jul 19, 4:54 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, Collin and 37 more96 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.