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Tornado Watch 17
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 12, 2019, 3:36 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; 23 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2019, 3:36 PM MDT (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2019, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 31 counties
Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Midland County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 5:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 54 min |
| Mar 12, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 50 min |
| Mar 12, 5:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy | 35 min |
| Mar 12, 6:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 16 min |
| Mar 12, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 51 min |
| Mar 12, 6:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Quay | 33 min |
| Mar 12, 6:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 59 min |
| Mar 12, 6:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy | 25 min |
| Mar 12, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 48 min |
| Mar 12, 6:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay | 46 min |
| Mar 12, 6:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 31 min |
| Mar 12, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 40 min |
| Mar 12, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves, Ward, Winkler | 47 min |
| Mar 12, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 29 min |
| Mar 12, 7:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 48 min |
| Mar 12, 7:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Loving, Ward, Winkler | 13 min |
| Mar 12, 7:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 36 min |
| Mar 12, 7:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 45 min |
| Mar 12, 7:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 44 min |
| Mar 12, 8:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis, Pecos, Reeves, Ward | 65 min |
| Mar 12, 8:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 24 min |
| Mar 12, 9:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 14 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 12:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bernalillo, Lincoln, Otero, Socorro, Torrance, Valencia | 83 min |
| Mar 12, 2:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea | 2 hr |
| Mar 12, 4:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy | 118 min |
| Mar 12, 5:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves, Ward | 118 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.