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Mesoscale Discussion 1214

July 1, 201721 counties in New Mexico; Bailey County, Cochran County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 1, 2017, 3:32 PM MDT for 21 counties in New Mexico; Bailey County, Cochran County, Texas. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 2017, 3:32 PM MDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2017, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
60%
All 23 counties

Bernalillo County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln 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, Valencia County, NM, Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 2017-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 133 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2017-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 297 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
133 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-389 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1977 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
297 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
324 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 6:51 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCurry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt114 min
Jun 30, 10:58 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCurry, Roosevelt92 min
Jun 30, 9:24 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFoard, Hardeman, Knox, Wichita, Wilbarger66 min
Jul 1, 1:34 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBorden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Crosby, Dawson and 14 more5 hr
Jul 1, 1:56 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Crosby, Dawson and 17 more64 min
Jul 1, 4:25 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland and 6 more2 hr
Jul 1, 10:33 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Angelina, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Ellis and 27 more117 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.