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Mesoscale Discussion 941

June 2, 20138 counties in New Mexico; 6 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 2, 2013, 4:57 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2013, 4:57 PM MDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2013, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 40%

Counties Chaves County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Culberson County, TX, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Reeves County, TX

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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 272Jun 2, 5:20 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 291 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: 2984 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 317 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
Jun 2, 1:05 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Socorro, Valencia	115 min
Jun 2, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chaves, De Baca, Doña Ana, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea and 6 more	7 hr
Jun 1, 7:28 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Brewster, Burnet, Caldwell and 25 more	62 min
Jun 1, 10:17 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Blanco, Comal, Edwards, Gillespie, Hays and 8 more	58 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2013 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2013 Every mesoscale discussion in 2013

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.