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  1. Severe Thunderstorm Watch 696Offices KABQ, KEPZIn effect · Until
  2. Flood WatchUpcoming · Starts

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Cached lightning source details and text readings

Snow analysis — NOHRSC

Source-rendered snow depth and snow water equivalent for the lower 48. History changes this snow picture only; warnings and radar keep their own clocks.

Stored snow depth · footprint valid 2026-10-23 12:00:00 UTC, picture retrieved 2026-10-23 18:38:05.678 UTC.

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NOHRSC snow analysis for the lower 48; see the adjacent source legend and time qualification
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Snow pictures, retained history and source provenance

Change time or forecast product

Recorded weather · gaps are marked. Coverage begins with recording activation.

Live sources keep independent clocks.

Replay coverage and interpretation

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    Station and river observations (165)

    Surface source current; observed water-level source current. Each reading keeps its own time. Map markers show at most 500 stations and 500 gauges; the complete source directory is paginated.

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    Offices KABQ, KEPZ

    Severe Thunderstorm Watch 696 · Current published alert

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    Office
    NOAA/SPC
    Full official bulletin

    No bulletin text retained with this source. Open the agency record.

    No official detail link supplied.

    Official geographic context; not a storm footprint.

    Recent changes

    No retained alert changes in this monitoring area. This is not proof that nothing changed.

    Source collection activity (30)
    • office hwo · source revision · collected
    • office afd · source revision · collected
    • surface analysis · source revision · collected
    • metars · source revision · collected
    • radar alerts · source revision · collected
    • gauges observed · source revision · collected
    • gauge details · source revision · collected
    • radar alerts · source revision · collected
    • radar alerts · source revision · collected
    • radar alerts · source revision · collected
    • ero discussion · source revision · collected
    • radar alerts · source revision · collected

    A new collection or source revision does not establish a consequential weather change.

    Recording coverage and limits
    • warnings: retained from 2026-10-22T19:45:35.371Z through 2026-10-23T19:45:07.043Z
    • outlooks: retained from 2026-10-22T19:45:35.371Z through 2026-10-23T19:45:08.805Z
    • hydro: retained from 2026-10-22T19:45:35.371Z through 2026-10-23T19:45:06.919Z
    • analysis: retained from 2026-10-22T19:45:35.371Z through 2026-10-23T19:45:08.144Z
    • winter: retained from 2026-10-22T19:45:35.371Z through 2026-10-23T19:38:05.221Z

    Source changes and imagery have separate recording coverage. Open Replay for retained weather frames.

    Checks every minute; each layer keeps its own time.

    About this monitored event

    This event, as this site’s operators set it up

    This site could not read the events list again; this is its last good copy.

    Kind
    Severe weather
    Window
    Open: no start or end was set
    Updated

    Analysis

    Area, source times and interpretation

    Current cached context, independently dated. Regional reference: TX; a reference within a wider monitoring area does not replace the complete warning geography. This section remains separate from the historical replay cursor and official cyclone forecast. Use Forecast to pin a retained model package.

    Soundings: what weather balloons measured

    SPC’s skew-T diagram and hodograph of the sounding at Charleston, SC (CHS), 12Z. Its levels are in the table below.
    Observed Sounding at Charleston, SC (CHS), for (7 h 45 min ago). SPC’s graphic; the values in its panels (CAPE, shear, the indices) are SPC’s computations from these levels. Data: NOAA/SPC.

    A balloon launched about an hour before the time named, measuring as it rose and drifted with the wind: the atmosphere above one place, at one time. Model soundings, which are forecasts, are not shown here.

    The levels this sounding was drawn from (60)
    Charleston, SC (CHS): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
    PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
    1019 mb15 m10.66.4020° 3 kt
    1000 mb175 m16.62.6050° 23 kt
    985 mb305 m15.8-0.5040° 20 kt
    963 mb494 m14.6-5.4—
    950 mb610 m13.7-6.8035° 16 kt
    925 mb832 m12.2-10.8045° 17 kt
    883 mb1219 m10.4-18.1040° 28 kt
    865 mb1391 m9.6-21.4—
    851 mb1524 m9.2-21.8025° 20 kt
    850 mb1536 m9.0-22.0025° 19 kt
    804 mb1994 m6.8-25.2—
    792 mb2117 m7.0-26.0—
    778 mb2263 m6.6-24.4—
    762 mb2438 m5.9-25.9010° 8 kt
    734 mb2743 m4.4-20.6350° 16 kt
    719 mb2906 m3.4-23.6—
    706 mb3048 m2.2-22.1005° 17 kt
    700 mb3122 m1.6-21.4005° 17 kt
    690 mb3237 m0.8-23.2—
    661 mb3580 m-1.1-21.1—
    631 mb3948 m-3.1-27.1—
    621 mb4074 m-4.1-26.1—
    606 mb4266 m-4.1-30.1—
    596 mb4397 m-4.7-32.7—
    586 mb4529 m-5.5-29.5—
    563 mb4841 m-7.5-31.5—
    539 mb5182 m-10.5-33.8335° 27 kt
    523 mb5408 m-12.1-35.1—
    512 mb5570 m-12.7-34.7—
    500 mb5750 m-13.7-35.7000° 34 kt
    459 mb6401 m-19.2-35.7000° 41 kt
    440 mb6706 m-21.3-38.1000° 41 kt
    422 mb7010 m-23.3-41.0005° 45 kt
    405 mb7315 m-25.7-43.7005° 45 kt
    400 mb7410 m-26.3-43.3005° 43 kt
    388 mb7620 m-27.7-45.2005° 42 kt
    372 mb7925 m-29.5-47.2005° 40 kt
    358 mb8201 m-31.1-48.1—
    341 mb8534 m-33.1-50.1005° 40 kt
    327 mb8839 m-35.2-52.2000° 29 kt
    314 mb9116 m-36.5-53.5—
    300 mb9430 m-37.3-54.3355° 32 kt
    286 mb9754 m-38.9-54.9355° 34 kt
    274 mb10058 m-40.6-56.6350° 28 kt
    262 mb10363 m-42.3-58.3005° 19 kt
    250 mb10668 m-43.7-59.7345° 13 kt
    250 mb10680 m-43.7-59.7320° 14 kt
    239 mb10973 m-43.5-59.5315° 18 kt
    229 mb11278 m-44.2-60.2290° 19 kt
    218 mb11582 m-44.7-61.7270° 26 kt
    200 mb12170 m-46.9-62.9300° 35 kt
    182 mb12802 m-50.2-65.9285° 25 kt
    168 mb13313 m-53.1-68.1—
    157 mb13748 m-54.9-68.9—
    150 mb14040 m-55.5-69.5280° 26 kt
    137 mb14630 m-59.4-71.8280° 18 kt
    124 mb15228 m-62.9-73.9—
    114 mb15740 m-65.7-75.7—
    104 mb16294 m-67.1-77.1—
    100 mb16530 m-67.3-77.3260° 19 kt
    Every station with a sounding (77)

    SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

    Spotlight: SPC Day 1 outlook

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    SPC Day 1 outlook

    • General Thunderstorms Risk
    • Marginal Risk
    • Slight Risk highest in this area

    SPC’s Day 1 categorical outlook, valid to , issued . SPC’s categories, as drawn. Data: NOAA/SPC.

    Watches

    • Severe Thunderstorm Watch 696 until

    SPC’s watches, by number, matched by the counties they list. Data: NOAA/SPC.

    Mesoscale discussions

    No mesoscale discussion reaches this area.

    SPC’s mesoscale discussions whose outline reaches the area. Data: NOAA/SPC.

    Storm ingredients

    SPC’s hourly mesoanalysis, observed soundings and model guidance for the area, on the Analysis tab with its own clocks.

    Open the Analysis tab

    Drawn by the Analysis tab’s own renderer. Data: NOAA/SPC, NOAA/NCEP.

    Flash-flood risk, Day 1

    • Marginal
    • Marginal
    • Slight

    WPC’s excessive rainfall outlook, to , issued : a chance of flash flooding, in four categories. Data: NOAA/WPC.

    River gauges in flood

    No river, coastal or lake gauge in this area is in flood, observed or forecast; 3 gauges at action stage.

    NWS’s gauges at flood stage or above in the area, worst first, each with its forecast hydrograph on Rain & rivers. Data: NOAA/NWPS.

    Rain expected and rain that fell

    WPC’s rain forecast and MRMS’s radar estimate of the rain that fell, on the Briefing’s map for the area.

    Open Rain & rivers

    Data: NOAA/WPC, NOAA/NSSL MRMS.

    Radar

    NOAA’s radar for the area, loaded by your browser as on the Radar page.

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    What changed, last 60 minutes

    1. Mesoscale Discussion 2404 no longer in force: Much of New Mexico and Portions of Far West Texas
    2. Severe Thunderstorm Watch 696 issued by NOAA/SPC: Offices KABQ, KEPZ

    The products’ own words and times, and what is no longer in force since the last read. Never written by AI.

    Monitoring area details
    Area
    Texas (NWS states: TX)
    Hazards
    Tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood, river flood, areal flood, coastal flood and other warnings, watches and advisories, and the forecasts for them
    Window
    In force now, with the next days of SPC’s and WPC’s products
    Made by
    This site’s operators, in its admin console. Nothing about a reader is stored. Watch another area

    An area the operators chose, not a storm’s footprint: everything here is in force in this area, never “from this event”.

    Published alerts in this area 2

    1. Severe Thunderstorm Watch11 new · until 24 Oct 03:00Z
    2. Flood Watch11 not yet in effect · until 25 Oct 12:00Z
    Every alert in this area, most urgent first
    1. Severe Thunderstorm Watch 696Offices KABQ, KEPZuntil · NOAA/SPC
    2. Flood WatchOtero Mesa; West Central Tularosa Basin/White Sands; East Central Tularosa Basin/Alamogordo; Southeast Tularosa Basin; Western El Paso County; Eastern/Central El Paso County; Northern Hudspeth Highlands/Hueco Mountains; Salt Basin; Southern Hudspeth Highlands; Rio Grande Valley of Eastern El Paso/Western Hudspeth Counties; Rio Grande Valley of Eastern Hudspeth CountyFrom · until · NWS El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM

    Most urgent first, by the Briefing’s ranking. Checked .

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    WatchesTest123 · 2 alerts
    Severe Thunderstorm Watch 696Offices KABQ, KEPZUntil Flood WatchStarts
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