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Tornado Watch 241
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 26, 2023, 2:22 PM MDT for 12 counties in New Mexico; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2023, 2:22 PM MDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2023, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 25 counties
Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
53 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Santa Fe, Torrance | 50 min |
| May 26, 2:32 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Torrance | 118 min |
| May 26, 3:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | San Miguel, Torrance | 47 min |
| May 26, 3:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 40 min |
| May 26, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 65 min |
| May 26, 3:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos | 59 min |
| May 26, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 30 min |
| May 26, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 44 min |
| May 26, 4:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines, Martin | 42 min |
| May 26, 4:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis | 54 min |
| May 26, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 61 min |
| May 26, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 66 min |
| May 26, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 57 min |
| May 26, 5:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 33 min |
| May 26, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 40 min |
| May 26, 5:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis, Presidio | 39 min |
| May 26, 5:25 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 2 hr |
| May 26, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 44 min |
| May 26, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis, Reeves | 51 min |
| May 26, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Torrance | 44 min |
| May 26, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis | 44 min |
| May 26, 6:12 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry | 2 hr |
| May 26, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 62 min |
| May 26, 6:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Jeff Davis | 61 min |
| May 26, 6:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis | 119 min |
| May 26, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Reeves | 39 min |
| May 26, 6:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, San Miguel | 46 min |
| May 26, 6:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 57 min |
| May 26, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt | 20 min |
| May 26, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Reeves | 45 min |
| May 26, 6:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Jeff Davis | 39 min |
| May 26, 6:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 47 min |
| May 26, 7:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 45 min |
| May 26, 7:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 48 min |
| May 26, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Torrance | 60 min |
| May 26, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Jeff Davis | 45 min |
| May 26, 7:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis, Presidio | 41 min |
| May 26, 7:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Reeves | 40 min |
| May 26, 7:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 39 min |
| May 26, 7:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt | 57 min |
| May 26, 8:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Jeff Davis, Reeves | 49 min |
| May 26, 8:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 47 min |
| May 26, 8:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 44 min |
| May 26, 8:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Jeff Davis | 42 min |
| May 26, 8:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 53 min |
| May 26, 8:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Roosevelt | 60 min |
| May 26, 8:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves, Ward | 52 min |
| May 26, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 28 min |
| May 26, 8:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 48 min |
| May 26, 9:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 42 min |
| May 26, 9:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 60 min |
| May 26, 9:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 62 min |
| May 26, 9:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 46 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 881 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 6:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Colfax, Curry, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel and 1 more | 8 hr |
| May 25, 8:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union | 88 min |
| May 25, 10:20 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Harding, Quay | 115 min |
| May 26, 1:06 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Roosevelt | 114 min |
| May 26, 1:29 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt | 5 hr |
| May 26, 11:53 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colfax, Mora, Santa Fe | 97 min |
| May 26, 1:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea and 3 more | 115 min |
| May 26, 5:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea and 2 more | 3 hr |
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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.