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Mesoscale Discussion 1180

June 1, 20037 counties in New Mexico; 20 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2003, 1:39 PM MDT for 7 counties in New Mexico; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2003, 1:39 PM MDT (19:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2003, 4:15 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 27 counties

Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Randall County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 1727 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -220 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 1:59 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Irion, McCulloch and 8 more	3 hr
Jun 1, 2:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more	6 hr
Jun 1, 2:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 26 more	6 hr
Jun 1, 2:34 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carson, Dallam, Gray, Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson and 7 more	116 min
Jun 1, 2:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more	5 hr
Jun 1, 4:25 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Wichita, Wilbarger	3 hr
Jun 1, 5:07 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Childress, Cochran and 50 more	113 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2003 Every mesoscale discussion in 2003

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.