Alert archive / New Mexico / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 2298
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 5, 2004, 1:48 PM MDT for Archuleta County, La Plata County, Mineral County, Colorado; 11 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 5, 2004, 1:48 PM MDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2004, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Archuleta County, CO, La Plata County, CO, Mineral County, CO, Bernalillo County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, Otero County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Sierra County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Valencia County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 69 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 465 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1157 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 1:57 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt | 63 min |
| Oct 5, 4:53 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Doña Ana, Lincoln, Otero, Roosevelt | 67 min |
| Oct 5, 9:20 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Quay, Roosevelt and 3 more | 115 min |
| Oct 5, 11:55 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bernalillo, Chaves, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Sandoval and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 5, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Doña Ana, Eddy, Lea, Otero | 5 hr |
| Oct 5, 4:15 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Doña Ana, Eddy, Lea, Otero | 90 min |
| Oct 5, 5:14 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea | 91 min |
| Oct 5, 5:35 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Otero | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.