Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2020
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 412
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 2, 2020, 2:29 PM MDT for 13 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2020, 2:29 PM MDT (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2020, 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, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 3:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 43 min |
| Aug 2, 4:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 5:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 63 min |
| Aug 2, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 1:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel and 1 more | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.