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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 480
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 17, 2016, 2:02 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico; 14 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 17, 2016, 2:02 PM MDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2016, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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
- 20%
- 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
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
36 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 3:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 39 min |
| Sep 17, 3:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 66 min |
| Sep 17, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis, Reeves | 47 min |
| Sep 17, 4:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis, Reeves | 64 min |
| Sep 17, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 64 min |
| Sep 17, 4:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 33 min |
| Sep 17, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 49 min |
| Sep 17, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland | 60 min |
| Sep 17, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 64 min |
| Sep 17, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 64 min |
| Sep 17, 5:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 53 min |
| Sep 17, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 59 min |
| Sep 17, 5:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Winkler | 34 min |
| Sep 17, 6:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 54 min |
| Sep 17, 6:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Jeff Davis | 53 min |
| Sep 17, 6:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Winkler | 33 min |
| Sep 17, 6:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 58 min |
| Sep 17, 6:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy | 24 min |
| Sep 17, 6:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 45 min |
| Sep 17, 6:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 26 min |
| Sep 17, 6:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 50 min |
| Sep 17, 6:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Howard, Martin | 54 min |
| Sep 17, 6:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 37 min |
| Sep 17, 6:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 31 min |
| Sep 17, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 55 min |
| Sep 17, 7:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 60 min |
| Sep 17, 7:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 27 min |
| Sep 17, 7:19 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Sep 17, 7:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 33 min |
| Sep 17, 7:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland, Upton | 47 min |
| Sep 17, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Loving, Reeves | 57 min |
| Sep 17, 8:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 63 min |
| Sep 17, 8:23 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland | 3 hr |
| Sep 17, 8:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland, Reagan, Upton | 48 min |
| Sep 17, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 63 min |
| Sep 17, 8:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 42 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 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 957 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 1:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea | 57 min |
| Sep 17, 1:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harding, Union | 2 hr |
| Sep 17, 2:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Colfax, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel, Union | 10 hr |
| Sep 17, 4:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union | 117 min |
| Sep 17, 4:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 6:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Ector, Glasscock, Howard and 6 more | 115 min |
| Sep 17, 12:18 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 87 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.