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Mesoscale Discussion 1381
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 13, 2003, 7:30 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico; 35 counties in Texas. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2003, 7:30 PM MDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2003, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Coke County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Menard County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 972 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 13, 6:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harding, Quay, Union | 86 min |
| Jun 14, 1:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea, Lincoln | 109 min |
| Jun 13, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Duval and 15 more | 96 min |
| Jun 13, 7:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley and 10 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:59 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley and 10 more | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 10:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 9:49 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hardeman and 5 more | 3 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.