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Mesoscale Discussion 965

June 3, 2019Eddy County, Otero County, New Mexico; 5 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 3, 2019, 3:37 PM MDT for Eddy County, Otero County, New Mexico; 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2019, 3:37 PM MDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2019, 4:30 PM MDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 40%

Counties Eddy County, NM, Otero County, NM, Culberson County, TX, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Presidio County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 539 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -277 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 185 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
Jun 2, 8:03 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Eddy, Lea	57 min
Jun 3, 1:08 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Colfax, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln and 5 more	3 hr
Jun 3, 2:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln and 4 more	6 hr
Jun 3, 11:20 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Lamar, Morris and 2 more	2 hr
Jun 3, 3:50 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Sherman	55 min
Jun 3, 4:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2019 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2019 Every 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.