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Mesoscale Discussion 1439

September 9, 20186 counties in New Mexico; 4 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 9, 2018, 2:46 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 9, 2018, 2:46 PM MDT (20:46 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 2018, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
5%

Counties De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 199 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2018-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 181 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2018-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 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
181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2018Every mesoscale discussion in 2018

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.