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Mesoscale Discussion 1554

June 29, 20036 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 29, 2003, 5:10 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2003, 5:10 PM MDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2003, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 30 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -452 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1171 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 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
Jun 29, 1:27 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colfax, Mora, San Miguel, Taos	3 hr
Jun 29, 2:01 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Curry, Roosevelt	59 min

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.