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Mesoscale Discussion 1334

June 18, 20049 counties in New Mexico; 19 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 18, 2004, 1:28 PM MDT for 9 counties in New Mexico; 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 18, 2004, 1:28 PM MDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 2004, 3:30 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties

Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX

The watches that followed

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

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 199 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 254 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-341 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1217 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
254 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
410 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 6:38 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 5 more2 hr
Jun 18, 1:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 5 more7 hr
Jun 18, 5:01 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe and 7 more59 min
Jun 17, 8:19 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 16 more26 min
Jun 17, 8:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCollingsworth, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler5 hr
Jun 18, 2:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 32 more7 hr
Jun 18, 2:51 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Delta, Denton and 9 more114 min

Nearby

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