Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 414
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2011, 2:16 PM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado; 12 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2011, 2:16 PM MDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2011, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 2:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero, Pueblo | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 3:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 33 min |
| Jun 1, 3:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 3:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 29 min |
| Jun 1, 3:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Otero | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Mora, San Miguel | 49 min |
| Jun 1, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 33 min |
| Jun 1, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 43 min |
| Jun 1, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 44 min |
| Jun 1, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 59 min |
| Jun 1, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 36 min |
| Jun 1, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 7:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, San Miguel | 50 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 265 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
- 2010 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 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 1, 1:24 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Prowers | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 5:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 12:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Cherokee, Clay and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:26 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 6 more | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 3:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 23 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 6:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt | 60 min |
| May 31, 8:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lea, Roosevelt | 56 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.