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Mesoscale Discussion 1346

July 9, 201513 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 9, 2015, 4:19 PM MDT for 13 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 86 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 2015, 4:19 PM MDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2015, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 86 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 5%

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Grant County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Luna County, NM, Otero County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Sierra County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 252 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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
Jul 9, 2:13 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Curry, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt, Union	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2015 Every mesoscale discussion in 2015

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.