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Mesoscale Discussion 2330

October 11, 20084 counties in Colorado; 25 counties in New Mexico; 6 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 11, 2008, 6:46 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; 25 counties in New Mexico; 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 89 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 11, 2008, 6:46 PM MDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired: Oct 11, 2008, 8:15 PM MDT
In force: 89 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 35 counties

Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Bernalillo County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, Mora County, NM, Otero County, NM, Quay County, NM, Rio Arriba 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, Union County, NM, Valencia County, NM, Bailey County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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 918Oct 11, 6:55 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 345 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: 35 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 654 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 288 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 455 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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
Oct 11, 7:46 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Las Animas, Prowers	89 min
Oct 11, 9:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Las Animas, Prowers	5 hr
Oct 12, 2:05 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	85 min
Oct 11, 7:02 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 4 more	6 hr
Oct 11, 10:51 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln and 5 more	84 min
Oct 12, 12:44 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Harding and 4 more	61 min

Nearby

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