Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 290
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2014, 1:27 PM MDT for 15 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2014, 1:27 PM MDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2014, 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 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, Union County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 1:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 2:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 4:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 26 min |
| Jun 13, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 4:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 5:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 5:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 53 min |
| Jun 13, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, San Miguel | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 6:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 6:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 31 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 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, 6:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mora | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 12:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Los Alamos, Sandoval, Santa Fe and 4 more | 55 min |
| Jun 13, 12:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe and 8 more | 57 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.