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Mesoscale Discussion 638

June 3, 201812 counties in New Mexico; 8 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 3, 2018, 5:57 PM MDT for 12 counties in New Mexico; 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2018, 5:57 PM MDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2018, 7:30 PM MDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Chaves County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Sierra County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Culberson County, TX, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Ward County, TX

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 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 watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 154Jun 3, 8:35 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 1055 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -304 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2083 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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
Jun 3, 12:02 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Doña Ana, Lincoln, Los Alamos and 11 more	118 min
Jun 3, 12:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, De Baca, Doña Ana, Eddy and 18 more	9 hr
Jun 3, 3:56 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bernalillo, Chaves, Cibola, De Baca, Doña Ana, Eddy and 10 more	64 min
Jun 3, 2:49 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Harris, Jasper and 10 more	56 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2018 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2018 Every 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.