Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 382
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 12, 2012, 1:16 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2012, 1:16 PM MDT (19:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2012, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 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, Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay 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), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 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
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 2:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 40 min |
| Jun 12, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 24 min |
| Jun 12, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 15 min |
| Jun 12, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 3:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 3:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 5:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 5:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Mora | 54 min |
| Jun 12, 6:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 7:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 37 min |
| Jun 12, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 7:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, Union | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 7:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 8:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 42 min |
| Jun 12, 8:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley, Oldham | 57 min |
| Jun 12, 8:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 56 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 313 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 1:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers | 88 min |
| Jun 12, 1:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick | 67 min |
| Jun 12, 4:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 3:08 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Quay | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln, Roosevelt | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 2:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell and 13 more | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 8:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 11, 10:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Johnston and 8 more | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 10:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 9:32 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cotton, Jefferson, Love, Marshall, Murray and 1 more | 88 min |
| Jun 11, 6:11 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 29 more | 94 min |
| Jun 11, 8:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 31 more | 66 min |
| Jun 12, 1:54 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 3 more | 96 min |
| Jun 12, 2:21 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bowie, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Morris and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 12, 5:08 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Nacogdoches, Panola, Shelby | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:11 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler | 8 hr |
| Jun 12, 8:23 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby | 67 min |
| Jun 12, 10:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Collin and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 11:12 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange and 1 more | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 1:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Coleman, Concho, Glasscock, Midland, Mitchell and 4 more | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 2:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Brown, Burleson and 37 more | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 2:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Austin, Bell, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson and 24 more | 4 hr |
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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.