Alert archive / New Mexico / Mesoscale Discussions in 2019
Mesoscale Discussion 1990
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 20, 2019, 5:08 PM MDT for 5 counties in New Mexico; 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 20, 2019, 5:08 PM MDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 2019, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
Counties Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Bailey County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 329 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1664 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 12:35 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Garza, Kent, Lynn | 55 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2019Every mesoscale discussion in 2019
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.