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Mesoscale Discussion 1767

July 10, 2003Cochise County, Arizona; 15 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 10, 2003, 4:30 PM MST for Cochise County, Arizona; 15 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 2003, 4:30 PM MST (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2003, 6:30 PM MST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Cochise County, AZ, Bernalillo County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Grant County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Luna County, NM, Otero County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Sierra County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 592 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -266 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2336 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
Jul 10, 1:35 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bernalillo, Chaves, Doña Ana, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Otero and 6 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Arizona, 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.