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Mesoscale Discussion 889

May 25, 20076 counties in Colorado; 21 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 25, 2007, 1:12 PM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado; 21 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2007, 1:12 PM MDT (19:12 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2007, 3:15 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 27 counties

Bent County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Bernalillo County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, Luna County, NM, Mora County, NM, Otero County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Sierra County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 161 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1435 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 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
May 25, 2:20 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Phillips, Sedgwick	55 min
May 25, 4:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2007 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2007 Every mesoscale discussion in 2007

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.