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Mesoscale Discussion 2429

October 4, 20038 counties in New Mexico; 7 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 4, 2003, 3:58 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Oct 4, 2003, 3:58 PM MDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired
Oct 4, 2003, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
92 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Culberson County, TX, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX, Loving County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2003-10-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2003-10-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-172 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1222 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 4, 1:11 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEddy, Lea3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2003Every 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.