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Tornado Watch 181

May 24, 2014Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 28 counties in Texas

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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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
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 1:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke, Nolan50 min
May 24, 2:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Ector, Martin, Midland63 min
May 24, 2:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Reagan, Upton58 min
May 24, 2:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Pecos55 min
May 24, 2:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Pecos, Upton62 min
May 24, 3:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReagan, Upton64 min
May 24, 3:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor46 min
May 24, 3:18 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFReagan, Upton27 min
May 24, 3:43 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFReagan, Upton47 min
May 24, 3:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos, Reagan, Upton55 min
May 24, 3:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett50 min
May 24, 4:07 PM MDTTornado WarningSJTCrockett23 min
May 24, 4:21 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFCrane, Pecos3 hr
May 24, 4:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReagan, Upton54 min
May 24, 4:30 PM MDTTornado WarningSJTCrockett30 min
May 24, 4:41 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFPecos, Terrell64 min
May 24, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion, Sterling, Tom Green38 min
May 24, 5:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos, Terrell35 min
May 24, 5:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReagan61 min
May 24, 5:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion, Sterling, Tom Green46 min
May 24, 5:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett41 min
May 24, 5:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion35 min
May 24, 5:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos, Terrell59 min
May 24, 5:54 PM MDTTornado WarningSJTIrion36 min
May 24, 6:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett48 min
May 24, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion, Sterling, Tom Green47 min
May 24, 6:16 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos, Terrell3 hr
May 24, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos, Terrell60 min
May 24, 6:45 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCrockett3 hr
May 24, 6:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion, Sterling, Tom Green32 min
May 24, 7:11 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReagan3 hr
May 24, 7:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReagan59 min
May 24, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton58 min
May 24, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett28 min
May 24, 7:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster, Pecos, Terrell63 min
May 24, 7:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy58 min
May 24, 7:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy53 min
May 24, 7:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett52 min
May 24, 7:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green35 min
May 24, 8:27 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy5 hr
May 24, 8:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster, Pecos, Terrell62 min
May 24, 8:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy59 min
May 24, 8:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy57 min
May 24, 8:39 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCrockett3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2014-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1629 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 12:00Z on 2014-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 7:56 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea, Lincoln and 3 more64 min
May 23, 9:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea, Lincoln and 2 more97 min
May 24, 12:45 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, Curry, Eddy, Roosevelt90 min
May 24, 5:26 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLea94 min
May 24, 11:26 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLea3 hr
May 24, 12:21 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe and 11 more114 min
May 24, 1:36 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCChaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 8 more
May 24, 1:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 8 more7 hr
May 24, 2:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEddy, Lea91 min
May 24, 5:24 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 6 more66 min
May 24, 11:58 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCallahan, Fisher, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor2 hr
May 24, 1:58 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Coleman, Eastland and 10 more2 hr

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.