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Mesoscale Discussion 1433

June 27, 20047 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Oklahoma; 16 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 27, 2004, 3:32 PM MDT for 7 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Oklahoma; 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 2004, 3:32 PM MDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2004, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties

Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 2004-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-43 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 3:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Quay and 2 more6 hr
Jun 27, 7:55 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAngelina, Hardin, Houston, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton and 8 more2 hr

Nearby

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