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Mesoscale Discussion 1387

June 14, 20036 counties in New Mexico; 6 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2003, 1:41 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 109 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2003, 1:41 PM MDT (19:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2003, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 109 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe thunderstorm potential

Counties Chaves County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Culberson County, TX, Loving County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1344 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 13, 6:34 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harding, Quay, Union	86 min
Jun 13, 7:30 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Curry, De Baca, Lea, Roosevelt	90 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 New Mexico, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.