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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 183

May 24, 20146 counties in New Mexico; 20 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2014, 8:38 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2014, 8:38 PM MDT (02:38 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2014, 3:00 AM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 26 counties

Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
20%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
Ten or more severe hail reports
30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
60%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 9:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy, Lea58 min
May 24, 10:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea60 min
May 24, 11:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea61 min
May 24, 11:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBYoakum31 min
May 24, 11:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines55 min
May 24, 11:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry, Yoakum32 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 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2014-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 953 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2014-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 245 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
953 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
848 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
245 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 6:42 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLea63 min
May 24, 8:20 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, Curry, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt55 min
May 24, 10:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCurry, Lea, Roosevelt67 min
May 25, 12:12 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCurry, Quay3 hr
May 25, 1:37 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEddy, Lea, Roosevelt113 min
May 25, 2:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln and 2 more8 hr
May 24, 8:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCrockett, Schleicher, Sutton, Terrell, Val Verde6 hr
May 25, 1:11 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrockett, Edwards, Kimble, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton and 1 more94 min
May 25, 1:40 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Borden, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dawson and 9 more95 min
May 25, 9:15 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrockett, Irion, Schleicher, Tom Green90 min
May 25, 11:50 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCPecos, Reeves85 min
May 25, 12:35 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBandera, Blanco, Burnet, Crockett, Edwards, Gillespie and 16 more115 min
May 25, 12:53 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBandera, Brewster, Brown, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 29 more8 hr
May 25, 2:43 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlanco, Brewster, Brown, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 24 more92 min
May 25, 5:12 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBandera, Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Kinney and 3 more93 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.