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Mesoscale Discussion 1085

June 4, 200411 counties in New Mexico; 5 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 4, 2004, 2:26 PM MDT for 11 counties in New Mexico; 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2004, 2:26 PM MDT (20:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2004, 4:30 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Chaves County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Sierra County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Culberson County, TX, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX, Loving County, TX, Reeves County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 254 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: 356 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -310 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1791 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 187 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 3, 7:01 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Doña Ana, Lincoln, Otero	89 min
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, 1:13 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Erath and 22 more	2 hr
Jun 4, 1:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Callahan, Clay, Collin and 37 more	5 hr
Jun 4, 4:08 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Chambers, Hardin, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson and 9 more	2 hr
Jun 4, 4:35 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Bell, Borden, Bosque, Brazos and 62 more	85 min
Jun 4, 5:04 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Ochiltree, Roberts, Sherman	116 min
Jun 4, 5:22 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith and 10 more	83 min
Jun 4, 5:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Donley, Gray and 11 more	4 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.