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Mesoscale Discussion 1983

August 12, 2004Conejos County, Costilla County, Las Animas County, Colorado; 17 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 12, 2004, 6:26 PM MDT for Conejos County, Costilla County, Las Animas County, Colorado; 17 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 94 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 12, 2004, 6:26 PM MDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 2004, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
94 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 159 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2004-08-13Temperature 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2004-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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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
Aug 13, 12:21 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBent, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, Huerfano, Las Animas and 2 more84 min
Aug 13, 1:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBent, Crowley, Huerfano, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more7 hr
Aug 13, 4:30 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBent, Crowley, Huerfano, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more2 hr

Nearby

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