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Mesoscale Discussion 1369

June 13, 20038 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 13, 2003, 1:10 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 95 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2003, 1:10 PM MDT (19:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2003, 2:45 PM MDT
In force: 95 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM

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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 61 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -335 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1909 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.1

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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
Jun 13, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Harding, Quay, Union	5 hr
Jun 13, 4:13 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt	62 min
Jun 13, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Curry, De Baca, Lea, Roosevelt	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.