Alert archive / New Mexico / Mesoscale Discussions in 2014
Mesoscale Discussion 682
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2014, 12:21 PM MDT for 17 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2014, 12:21 PM MDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2014, 2:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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.
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 87 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1909 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea, Lincoln and 3 more | 64 min |
| May 23, 9:53 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea, Lincoln and 2 more | 97 min |
| May 24, 12:45 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, Eddy, Roosevelt | 90 min |
| May 24, 5:26 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lea | 94 min |
| May 24, 11:26 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lea | 3 hr |
| May 24, 12:43 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 8 hr |
| May 24, 1:36 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 8 more | |
| May 24, 1:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 2:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 91 min |
| May 24, 5:24 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 6 more | 66 min |
Nearby
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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.