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Mesoscale Discussion 1198

June 30, 20174 counties in Colorado; 7 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 30, 2017, 12:54 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; 7 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 2017, 12:54 PM MDT (18:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2017, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
40%

Counties Costilla County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 239 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2017-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2017-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
4373 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 6:28 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert and 4 more2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2017Every mesoscale discussion in 2017

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.