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Mesoscale Discussion 1350

June 19, 20044 counties in New Mexico; Hartley County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 19, 2004, 6:27 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico; Hartley County, Texas. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 2004, 6:27 PM MDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2004, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Hartley County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 1049 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1226 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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 20, 1:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Colfax, Harding, Union	6 hr
Jun 20, 2:03 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe and 6 more	117 min
Jun 20, 4:48 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colfax, Harding, Union	87 min
Jun 20, 1:32 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Gray, Hansford and 10 more	118 min
Jun 20, 4:30 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Dawson, Dickens and 19 more	3 hr
Jun 20, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 13 more	6 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.