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Mesoscale Discussion 1651

July 13, 200412 counties in Arizona; Catron County, Grant County, Hidalgo County, New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 13, 2004, 3:55 PM MST for 12 counties in Arizona; Catron County, Grant County, Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 2004, 3:55 PM MST (22:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 2004, 6:00 PM MST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Apache County, AZ, Cochise County, AZ, Coconino County, AZ, Gila County, AZ, Graham County, AZ, Greenlee County, AZ, Maricopa County, AZ, Navajo County, AZ, Pima County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ, Santa Cruz County, AZ, Yavapai County, AZ, Catron County, NM, Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 2004-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 403 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, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 2004-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 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
403 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-255 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1800 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-8 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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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Arizona, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.