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Tornado Watch 175
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 26, 2025, 2:48 PM MDT for 9 counties in New Mexico; Andrews County, Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2025, 2:48 PM MDT (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2025, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Gaines County, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- 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
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 2:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 41 min |
| Apr 26, 3:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 39 min |
| Apr 26, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 65 min |
| Apr 26, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 27 min |
| Apr 26, 3:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 65 min |
| Apr 26, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 4:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 64 min |
| Apr 26, 4:47 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 4 hr |
| Apr 26, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 66 min |
| Apr 26, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Roosevelt | 65 min |
| Apr 26, 5:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 33 min |
| Apr 26, 5:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 5:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 65 min |
| Apr 26, 6:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 26 min |
| Apr 26, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 54 min |
| Apr 26, 6:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay | 64 min |
| Apr 26, 6:35 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 6:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 44 min |
| Apr 26, 7:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 38 min |
| Apr 26, 7:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 38 min |
| Apr 26, 7:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 7:28 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 7:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 21 min |
| Apr 26, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 57 min |
| Apr 26, 8:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 8:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 67 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 6:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 119 min |
| Apr 26, 12:09 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, De Baca, Quay | 111 min |
| Apr 26, 1:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea | 2 hr |
| Apr 25, 9:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:43 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:57 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Childress, Collingsworth, Hardeman | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 8:19 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Delta and 8 more | 116 min |
| Apr 26, 1:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Cass, Lamar, Morris, Red River, Titus | 115 min |
| Apr 26, 3:42 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Red River | 5 hr |
| Apr 26, 4:16 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Loving, Midland and 7 more | 89 min |
| Apr 26, 4:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crane, Ector, Loving, Midland, Pecos, Reeves and 3 more | 4 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.