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Mesoscale Discussion 1774

July 11, 20037 counties in Colorado; 10 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 11, 2003, 1:01 PM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado; 10 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 119 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 11, 2003, 1:01 PM MDT (19:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2003, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 119 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Alamosa County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Custer County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM, Union County, NM

The watches that followed

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

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 726Jul 11, 4:25 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2668 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 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
Jul 11, 2:16 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan and 3 more	119 min
Jul 11, 3:38 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca	97 min
Jul 11, 5:50 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 7 more	85 min
Jul 11, 11:37 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra	113 min
Jul 11, 12:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Lincoln, Luna, Otero and 1 more	5 hr
Jul 11, 4:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	6 hr
Jul 11, 4:33 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra	87 min

Nearby

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.