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Mesoscale Discussion 1072

May 28, 20089 counties in New Mexico; Culberson County, Reeves County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 28, 2008, 1:54 PM MDT for 9 counties in New Mexico; Culberson County, Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 96 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2008, 1:54 PM MDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2008, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 96 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Chaves County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Culberson County, TX, Reeves County, TX

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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.

Tornado Watch 383May 28, 2:30 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4826 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 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
May 27, 7:48 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lea	87 min
May 28, 2:28 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy and 16 more	7 hr
May 28, 4:30 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy and 16 more	90 min
May 27, 8:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 42 more	5 hr
May 27, 10:28 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 34 more	2 hr
May 28, 1:03 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Concho, Dawson, Ector, Glasscock and 15 more	57 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2008 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2008 Every mesoscale discussion in 2008

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.