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Mesoscale Discussion 1078

June 3, 2004Doña Ana County, Lincoln County, Otero County, New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 3, 2004, 7:01 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, Lincoln County, Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 89 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2004, 7:01 PM MDT (01:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2004, 8:30 PM MDT
In force: 89 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 243 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: 280 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 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 4, 1:29 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Union	2 hr
Jun 4, 2:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Union	6 hr
Jun 4, 2:26 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, De Baca, Doña Ana, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln and 5 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2004 Every mesoscale discussion in 2004

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.