Alert archive / New Mexico / Mesoscale Discussions in 2015
Mesoscale Discussion 1867
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 21, 2015, 2:23 PM MDT for 5 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 21, 2015, 2:23 PM MDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 21, 2015, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Sierra County, NM, Socorro County, NM, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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 nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 596 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 7:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea and 4 more | 114 min |
| Oct 21, 9:50 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Doña Ana, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 115 min |
| Oct 21, 12:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, Doña Ana, Lincoln, Luna, Otero, Sierra and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 21, 12:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Doña Ana, Eddy, Lincoln, Luna, Otero and 2 more | 23 min |
| Oct 21, 4:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 6 hr |
| Oct 21, 5:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Otero | 89 min |
| Oct 21, 2:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving, Pecos, Presidio and 2 more | 114 min |
| Oct 21, 3:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carson, Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore and 3 more | 67 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2015Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.