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Mesoscale Discussion 1099

May 24, 2003Las Animas County, Pueblo County, Colorado; 11 counties in New Mexico; 13 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2003, 12:05 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Pueblo County, Colorado; 11 counties in New Mexico; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2003, 12:05 PM MDT (18:05 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2003, 2:30 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 26 counties

Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Swisher County, TX

The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -384 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1782 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 6:08 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Crowley, Denver and 13 more	67 min
May 23, 7:56 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick	94 min
May 24, 2:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 7 more	6 hr
May 24, 2:43 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Washington, Yuma	92 min
May 24, 4:57 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 7 more	93 min
May 24, 12:03 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Donley, Foard, Gray and 8 more	117 min
May 24, 8:30 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Lamar, Red River	5 hr
May 24, 10:27 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lamar	93 min
May 24, 2:19 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Bailey, Baylor, Borden, Briscoe, Carson and 37 more	86 min
May 24, 2:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 33 more	6 hr
May 24, 4:17 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Bosque, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Eastland and 20 more	88 min
May 24, 4:39 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Bailey, Carson, Castro, Cochran, Dallam and 21 more	96 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2003 Every mesoscale discussion in 2003

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.