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Mesoscale Discussion 1489

June 26, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 26, 2005, 4:29 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2005, 4:29 PM MDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2005, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Bernalillo County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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 nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 280 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: 437 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -176 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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
Jun 26, 12:00 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Alamosa, Arapahoe, Archuleta, Bent, Boulder and 49 more	2 hr
Jun 26, 1:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers	7 hr
Jun 26, 2:59 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Phillips, Sedgwick	2 hr
Jun 26, 12:38 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bernalillo, Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 11 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2005 Every mesoscale discussion in 2005

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.