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Tornado Watch 379

June 6, 20257 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 48 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 6, 2025, 3:54 PM MDT for 7 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 48 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2025, 3:54 PM MDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2025, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 57 counties

Curry County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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: 50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 40%
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: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 3:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	26 min
Jun 6, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Hale, Lubbock	62 min
Jun 6, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	30 min
Jun 6, 4:24 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron	51 min
Jun 6, 4:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Hockley	34 min
Jun 6, 4:44 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Lubbock	2 hr
Jun 6, 4:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Lubbock	65 min
Jun 6, 4:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	62 min
Jun 6, 4:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Hockley	61 min
Jun 6, 5:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Hockley	53 min
Jun 6, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Castro, Lamb, Parmer	50 min
Jun 6, 5:10 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Crosby, Garza, Lubbock, Lynn	35 min
Jun 6, 5:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Cimarron	61 min
Jun 6, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cochran, Hockley	45 min
Jun 6, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Floyd, Motley	55 min
Jun 6, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Eddy, Lea	65 min
Jun 6, 5:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	42 min
Jun 6, 5:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	48 min
Jun 6, 5:46 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron	29 min
Jun 6, 5:49 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Cochran, Hockley	41 min
Jun 6, 5:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	50 min
Jun 6, 5:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent	63 min
Jun 6, 6:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	66 min
Jun 6, 6:10 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	50 min
Jun 6, 6:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley	65 min
Jun 6, 6:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	53 min
Jun 6, 6:24 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry	36 min
Jun 6, 6:26 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent	34 min
Jun 6, 6:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock	50 min
Jun 6, 6:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Texas	47 min
Jun 6, 6:46 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent	119 min
Jun 6, 6:55 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Dickens, Kent	35 min
Jun 6, 6:57 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Texas	48 min
Jun 6, 6:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry	48 min
Jun 6, 7:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Lea	66 min
Jun 6, 7:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Kent, Stonewall	35 min
Jun 6, 7:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Texas	64 min
Jun 6, 7:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock	61 min
Jun 6, 7:41 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	49 min
Jun 6, 7:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Garza, Lynn	45 min
Jun 6, 7:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	35 min
Jun 6, 7:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Kent, Stonewall	61 min
Jun 6, 8:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza	46 min
Jun 6, 8:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts	44 min
Jun 6, 8:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	36 min
Jun 6, 8:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Dickens	67 min
Jun 6, 8:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Cimarron	64 min
Jun 6, 8:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	67 min
Jun 6, 8:40 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron	35 min
Jun 6, 8:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Hockley, Lubbock	56 min
Jun 6, 8:57 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts	48 min
Jun 6, 8:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Stonewall	31 min
Jun 6, 9:09 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron	51 min
Jun 6, 9:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	64 min
Jun 6, 9:22 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Texas	38 min
Jun 6, 9:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	48 min
Jun 6, 9:47 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	43 min
Jun 6, 9:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Beaver, Texas	53 min
Jun 6, 9:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall	38 min
Jun 6, 9:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector	62 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 342 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: 925 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -299 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1293 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 2:54 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Curry, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt	2 hr
Jun 6, 3:30 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harding, Union	90 min
Jun 6, 5:45 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Union	90 min
Jun 5, 8:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beaver, Cimarron, Texas	5 hr
Jun 5, 11:33 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Cleveland, Creek, Custer and 20 more	57 min
Jun 5, 11:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Canadian, Cherokee and 45 more	7 hr
Jun 6, 2:04 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Creek and 19 more	86 min
Jun 6, 3:44 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 4 more	91 min
Jun 6, 4:30 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg	5 hr
Jun 6, 6:46 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Sequoyah	89 min
Jun 5, 8:16 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 16 more	119 min
Jun 6, 12:09 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 7 more	96 min
Jun 6, 4:18 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crane, Culberson, Ector, Jeff Davis, Loving, Midland and 5 more	87 min
Jun 6, 5:18 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza and 11 more	87 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.