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Mesoscale Discussion 1355

June 20, 200412 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 20, 2004, 2:03 PM MDT for 12 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 2004, 2:03 PM MDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2004, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lea County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 255 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 2004-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1316 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 2004-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 207 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
1316 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.8

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 6:27 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHarding, Quay, San Miguel, Union93 min
Jun 20, 1:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCColfax, Harding, Union6 hr
Jun 20, 4:48 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColfax, Harding, Union87 min

Nearby

Mesoscale 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.