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Mesoscale Discussion 576

April 17, 200522 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 17, 2005, 1:50 PM MDT for 22 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 17, 2005, 1:50 PM MDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 2005, 4:15 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 22 counties

Bernalillo County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy 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, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Sierra County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 380 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: 65 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -96 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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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 1:25 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Union	3 hr
Apr 17, 2:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Harding, Quay, Union	8 hr
Apr 17, 3:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea and 2 more	6 hr
Apr 17, 5:28 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea and 2 more	2 hr
Apr 17, 5:50 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harding, Quay, Union	85 min

Nearby

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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.