Alert archive / New Mexico / Mesoscale Discussions in 2020
Mesoscale Discussion 981
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 23, 2020, 4:04 PM MDT for 17 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2020, 4:04 PM MDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2020, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe thunderstorm watch 298
Counties Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, Mora County, NM, Otero County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -314 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 12:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe and 13 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 1:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe and 14 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.