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Mesoscale Discussion 990
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 24, 2020, 2:56 PM MDT for 12 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 2020, 2:56 PM MDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2020, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch unlikely
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
Counties Colfax County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, Otero County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sierra County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM, El Paso County, TX
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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 nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 2344 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 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, 6:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Otero, Roosevelt | 2 hr |
| Jun 23, 7:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 9:47 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 118 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.