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Mesoscale Discussion 1999

August 14, 2004Quay County, New Mexico; 7 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 14, 2004, 12:58 AM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico; 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 14, 2004, 12:58 AM MDT (06:58 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2004, 3:00 AM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Quay County, NM, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 350 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: 133 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2720 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 6:37 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora, Quay and 2 more	83 min
Aug 14, 12:54 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colfax, Mora, Union	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.