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Mesoscale Discussion 668

May 8, 201715 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 8, 2017, 10:26 PM MDT for 15 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 2017, 10:26 PM MDT (04:26 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2017, 11:30 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe thunderstorm watch 198

Counties Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:29 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 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 6:30 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe and 10 more	2 hr
May 9, 9:55 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Mora, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 2 more	3 hr
May 9, 11:15 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bernalillo, Colfax, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln and 9 more	9 hr
May 9, 1:16 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Harding and 5 more	119 min
May 9, 2:23 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Harding and 6 more	8 hr
May 9, 5:12 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lea and 2 more	93 min
May 9, 5:24 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colfax, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Miguel and 3 more	66 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2017 Every 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.