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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 301
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2012, 2:24 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; 30 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2012, 2:24 PM MDT (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2012, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 38 counties
Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves, Ward | 62 min |
| May 26, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves, Ward, Winkler | 61 min |
| May 26, 6:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 22 min |
| May 26, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Yoakum | 28 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1387 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Harding, Lea and 3 more | 119 min |
| May 25, 7:43 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler | 62 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.