Alert archive / New Mexico / Mesoscale Discussions in 2020
Mesoscale Discussion 180
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 13, 2020, 8:32 PM MDT for 7 counties in New Mexico; 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 118 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 2020, 8:32 PM MDT (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2020, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Chaves County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Culberson County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Reeves County, TX
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:34 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 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 88 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 6:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crane, Ector, Loving, Reeves, Ward, Winkler | 83 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2020Every mesoscale discussion in 2020
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.