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Mesoscale Discussion 1270
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 9, 2003, 12:53 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2003, 12:53 PM MDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2003, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 1048 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 11:19 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bernalillo, Catron, Doña Ana, Grant, Lincoln, Luna and 4 more | 116 min |
| Jun 8, 7:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves and 1 more | 90 min |
| Jun 9, 3:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth and 26 more | 115 min |
| Jun 9, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 18 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2003Every 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.