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Tornado Watch 172

April 25, 2025Curry County, Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 32 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 25, 2025, 12:57 PM MDT for Curry County, Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 32 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 25, 2025, 12:57 PM MDT (18:57 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2025, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 35 counties

Curry County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:58 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: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 70%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

52 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 1:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey	66 min
Apr 25, 2:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham, Potter	57 min
Apr 25, 2:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	54 min
Apr 25, 2:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Bailey, Hockley, Lamb	32 min
Apr 25, 3:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Oldham, Potter	30 min
Apr 25, 3:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Oldham, Potter	54 min
Apr 25, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	47 min
Apr 25, 3:29 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Potter	46 min
Apr 25, 3:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	30 min
Apr 25, 3:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	24 min
Apr 25, 3:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	43 min
Apr 25, 3:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Potter	53 min
Apr 25, 3:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Oldham, Potter	64 min
Apr 25, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LUB	Hockley, Lamb	62 min
Apr 25, 4:03 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Lamb	2 hr
Apr 25, 4:04 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lamb	26 min
Apr 25, 4:08 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Moore, Oldham, Potter	3 hr
Apr 25, 4:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	66 min
Apr 25, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Oldham, Potter	62 min
Apr 25, 4:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lamb	30 min
Apr 25, 4:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Potter	52 min
Apr 25, 4:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	66 min
Apr 25, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock	60 min
Apr 25, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	40 min
Apr 25, 5:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Oldham, Potter	34 min
Apr 25, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Carson, Potter	65 min
Apr 25, 5:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	67 min
Apr 25, 5:44 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Hockley	2 hr
Apr 25, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	62 min
Apr 25, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	46 min
Apr 25, 6:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay, Roosevelt	38 min
Apr 25, 6:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MAF	Lea	67 min
Apr 25, 6:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Potter	47 min
Apr 25, 6:38 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	4 hr
Apr 25, 6:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	51 min
Apr 25, 6:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	18 min
Apr 25, 6:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Deaf Smith	56 min
Apr 25, 6:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cochran, Yoakum	56 min
Apr 25, 6:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Roosevelt	52 min
Apr 25, 6:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	64 min
Apr 25, 7:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Roosevelt	44 min
Apr 25, 7:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	43 min
Apr 25, 7:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Lamb	54 min
Apr 25, 7:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Deaf Smith	67 min
Apr 25, 7:44 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Hockley	3 hr
Apr 25, 7:55 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	3 hr
Apr 25, 7:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	33 min
Apr 25, 8:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Castro, Lamb, Parmer	63 min
Apr 25, 8:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	67 min
Apr 25, 8:45 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Parmer	2 hr
Apr 25, 8:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	39 min
Apr 25, 8:56 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Hockley	3 hr

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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 888 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1272 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 11:44 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Eddy, Lea	2 hr
Apr 25, 2:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Eddy, Lea	7 hr
Apr 24, 6:44 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King and 1 more	91 min
Apr 24, 7:51 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Collingsworth, Crosby and 16 more	84 min
Apr 24, 9:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill and 3 more	4 hr
Apr 24, 10:51 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Hutchinson and 2 more	84 min
Apr 25, 11:21 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 17 more	114 min
Apr 25, 2:19 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Hale, Hockley and 3 more	86 min
Apr 25, 2:44 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Loving, Reeves	91 min
Apr 25, 5:14 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hockley, Lubbock	2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.