Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 641
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 30, 2009, 3:27 PM MDT for 16 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 2009, 3:27 PM MDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 2009, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, Otero County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 3:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Torrance | 56 min |
| Jul 30, 3:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 50 min |
| Jul 30, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 64 min |
| Jul 30, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel, Torrance | 45 min |
| Jul 30, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel, Torrance | 30 min |
| Jul 30, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 28 min |
| Jul 30, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 60 min |
| Jul 30, 6:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 58 min |
| Jul 30, 6:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 64 min |
| Jul 30, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 24 min |
| Jul 30, 7:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 65 min |
| Jul 30, 7:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 63 min |
| Jul 30, 8:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 30 min |
| Jul 30, 9:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 60 min |
| Jul 30, 9:33 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 9:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 64 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 7:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Harding, Quay, Union | 2 hr |
| Jul 30, 1:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bernalillo, Cibola, Lincoln, Los Alamos, McKinley, Sandoval and 4 more | 59 min |
| Jul 30, 2:58 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea, Lincoln and 1 more | 32 min |
| Jul 30, 5:13 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe and 8 more | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.