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Mesoscale Discussion 1467

July 2, 20044 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 2, 2004, 1:12 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 2004, 1:12 PM MDT (19:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2004, 3:45 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX

The watches that followed

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

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 536Jul 2, 3:50 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 1416 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -191 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1357 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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
Jul 2, 3:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	5 hr
Jul 1, 7:01 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 30 more	59 min
Jul 2, 9:08 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Cleveland and 32 more	2 hr
Jul 2, 2:29 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Cotton, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson, Tillman	91 min
Jul 2, 2:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon and 4 more	6 hr
Jul 2, 4:15 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, Hughes and 13 more	90 min
Jul 2, 5:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Coal, Craig, Creek and 20 more	5 hr

Nearby

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