Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 515
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 20, 2015, 1:10 PM MDT for 17 counties in New Mexico; Culberson County, El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 20, 2015, 1:10 PM MDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 20, 2015, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, Mora County, NM, Otero County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Culberson County, TX, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
32 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 60 min |
| Oct 20, 1:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Cibola | 35 min |
| Oct 20, 2:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 30 min |
| Oct 20, 2:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 42 min |
| Oct 20, 2:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 40 min |
| Oct 20, 2:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Los Alamos, Santa Fe | 25 min |
| Oct 20, 2:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 32 min |
| Oct 20, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Cibola, Sandoval | 45 min |
| Oct 20, 2:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 43 min |
| Oct 20, 2:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 27 min |
| Oct 20, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 47 min |
| Oct 20, 2:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 11 min |
| Oct 20, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 30 min |
| Oct 20, 3:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 46 min |
| Oct 20, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln | 47 min |
| Oct 20, 4:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 41 min |
| Oct 20, 4:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance, Valencia | 23 min |
| Oct 20, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 49 min |
| Oct 20, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 39 min |
| Oct 20, 4:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 47 min |
| Oct 20, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 43 min |
| Oct 20, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 51 min |
| Oct 20, 5:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 37 min |
| Oct 20, 5:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln, Torrance | 39 min |
| Oct 20, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 45 min |
| Oct 20, 5:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 47 min |
| Oct 20, 6:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 33 min |
| Oct 20, 6:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 48 min |
| Oct 20, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 47 min |
| Oct 20, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 30 min |
| Oct 20, 6:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 42 min |
| Oct 20, 7:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 36 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 10:29 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catron, Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Sierra and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 20, 11:23 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Catron, Cibola, Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna and 5 more | 9 hr |
| Oct 20, 12:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Mora and 3 more | 85 min |
| Oct 20, 2:47 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catron, Cibola, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, McKinley and 4 more | 73 min |
| Oct 20, 4:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bernalillo, Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Doña Ana, Eddy and 8 more | 114 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2015Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2015
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.