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Mesoscale Discussion 2097

August 15, 200810 counties in Colorado; 6 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 15, 2008, 1:36 PM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado; 6 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 84 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 15, 2008, 1:36 PM MDT (19:36 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 2008, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 84 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...watch possible

Counties Alamosa County, CO, Bent County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Custer County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Bernalillo County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, Mora County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 222 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 834Aug 15, 3:35 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 69 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -361 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1890 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 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
Aug 14, 6:10 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 17 more	95 min
Aug 15, 3:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Costilla, Las Animas	7 hr

Nearby

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