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Tornado Watch 254
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 26, 2019, 1:32 PM MDT for 5 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2019, 1:32 PM MDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2019, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 80%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 80%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 62 min |
| May 26, 3:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 49 min |
| May 26, 4:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 22 min |
| May 26, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, San Miguel | 49 min |
| May 26, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 24 min |
| May 26, 4:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 25 min |
| May 26, 4:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 52 min |
| May 26, 5:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Union | 38 min |
| May 26, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 36 min |
| May 26, 5:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 42 min |
| May 26, 5:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Union | 41 min |
| May 26, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, Union | 53 min |
| May 26, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 59 min |
| May 26, 5:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 67 min |
| May 26, 6:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley, Oldham | 58 min |
| May 26, 6:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 55 min |
| May 26, 6:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 23 min |
| May 26, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 66 min |
| May 26, 6:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Quay | 32 min |
| May 26, 6:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hartley, Oldham | 28 min |
| May 26, 6:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hartley | 20 min |
| May 26, 6:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay, Union | 14 min |
| May 26, 6:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hartley, Oldham | 36 min |
| May 26, 6:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 31 min |
| May 26, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 53 min |
| May 26, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall | 55 min |
| May 26, 7:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hartley, Moore, Sherman | 31 min |
| May 26, 7:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 65 min |
| May 26, 7:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hansford, Sherman | 32 min |
| May 26, 7:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall | 53 min |
| May 26, 8:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Texas | 37 min |
| May 26, 8:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 54 min |
| May 26, 8:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Randall | 29 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 1256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 944 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 11:19 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt, Union | 116 min |
| May 26, 12:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 2 hr |
| May 26, 2:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt | 6 hr |
| May 26, 2:43 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colfax, Curry, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora, Quay and 2 more | 92 min |
| May 26, 5:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Lea, Roosevelt | 114 min |
| May 26, 5:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Roosevelt | 64 min |
| May 25, 7:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Washington | 54 min |
| May 25, 7:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, McIntosh and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 7:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more | 95 min |
| May 25, 10:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Creek, Lincoln, Okfuskee, Oklahoma | 60 min |
| May 26, 12:39 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Ottawa, Sequoyah | 2 hr |
| May 26, 5:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 86 min |
| May 25, 7:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crockett, Reagan, Upton | 91 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.