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Tornado Watch 181
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 24, 2014, 12:43 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2014, 12:43 PM MDT (18:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2014, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 30 counties
Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Coke County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 90%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
44 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 1:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 50 min |
| May 24, 2:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland | 63 min |
| May 24, 2:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Reagan, Upton | 58 min |
| May 24, 2:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 55 min |
| May 24, 2:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Upton | 62 min |
| May 24, 3:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 64 min |
| May 24, 3:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor | 46 min |
| May 24, 3:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 27 min |
| May 24, 3:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 47 min |
| May 24, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Reagan, Upton | 55 min |
| May 24, 3:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 50 min |
| May 24, 4:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Crockett | 23 min |
| May 24, 4:21 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 3 hr |
| May 24, 4:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 54 min |
| May 24, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Crockett | 30 min |
| May 24, 4:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 64 min |
| May 24, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 38 min |
| May 24, 5:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 35 min |
| May 24, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 61 min |
| May 24, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 46 min |
| May 24, 5:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 41 min |
| May 24, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 35 min |
| May 24, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 59 min |
| May 24, 5:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Irion | 36 min |
| May 24, 6:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 48 min |
| May 24, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 47 min |
| May 24, 6:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 3 hr |
| May 24, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 60 min |
| May 24, 6:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Crockett | 3 hr |
| May 24, 6:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 32 min |
| May 24, 7:11 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan | 3 hr |
| May 24, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 59 min |
| May 24, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 58 min |
| May 24, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 28 min |
| May 24, 7:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 63 min |
| May 24, 7:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 58 min |
| May 24, 7:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 53 min |
| May 24, 7:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 52 min |
| May 24, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 35 min |
| May 24, 8:27 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 5 hr |
| May 24, 8:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 62 min |
| May 24, 8:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 59 min |
| May 24, 8:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 57 min |
| May 24, 8:39 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Crockett | 3 hr |
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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 1629 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea, Lincoln and 3 more | 64 min |
| May 23, 9:53 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea, Lincoln and 2 more | 97 min |
| May 24, 12:45 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, Eddy, Roosevelt | 90 min |
| May 24, 5:26 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lea | 94 min |
| May 24, 11:26 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lea | 3 hr |
| May 24, 12:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe and 11 more | 114 min |
| May 24, 1:36 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 8 more | |
| May 24, 1:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 2:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 91 min |
| May 24, 5:24 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 6 more | 66 min |
| May 24, 11:58 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callahan, Fisher, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor | 2 hr |
| May 24, 1:58 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Coleman, Eastland and 10 more | 2 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.