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Mesoscale Discussion 1507

June 21, 2008Costilla County, Colorado; 21 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 21, 2008, 12:34 PM MDT for Costilla County, Colorado; 21 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 86 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2008, 12:34 PM MDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2008, 2:00 PM MDT
In force: 86 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 23 counties

Costilla County, CO, Bernalillo County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Grant County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, Luna County, NM, Mora County, NM, Otero County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Sierra County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Valencia County, NM, El Paso County, TX

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:35 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 141 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -370 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2264 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 20, 6:08 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Gilpin and 9 more	67 min
Jun 20, 6:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more	4 hr
Jun 20, 9:05 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carson, Donley, Gray, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson and 5 more	55 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2008 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.