WW 251 SEVERE TSTM NM TX 312025Z – 010300Z
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 251
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
225 PM MDT Wed May 31 2023
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
Eastern New Mexico
West Texas
* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 225 PM
until 900 PM MDT.
* Primary threats include...
Scattered damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 75
mph possible
Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 3
inches in diameter possible
A tornado or two possible
SUMMARY...Strong to severe thunderstorms are expected to develop
through mid/late afternoon, initially across east-central/southeast
New Mexico and the Transpecos of far west Texas. Within a
moist/moderately unstable environment, this will include the
potential for supercells capable of large hail. Some tornado risk
will also exist, particularly near a boundary across east-central
New Mexico eastward toward the New Mexico/Texas border vicinity. A
few clusters of storms within an increased severe wind potential may
develop by early evening as storms progress toward and east of the
New Mexico/Texas border.
The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 85
statute miles east and west of a line from 40 miles northwest of
Tucumcari NM to 45 miles south southwest of Wink TX. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REMEMBER...A Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are
favorable for severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area.
Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening
weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible
warnings. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce
tornadoes.
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AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
3 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 65 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
26025.
...Guyer
