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Mesoscale Discussion 1472

June 23, 20036 counties in New Mexico; 18 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 23, 2003, 1:17 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 2003, 1:17 PM MDT (19:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2003, 3:15 PM MDT
In force: 118 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 24 counties

Chaves County, NM, Curry 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, Deaf Smith County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Terry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 567Jun 23, 2:20 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 850 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -314 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1463 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 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 23, 2:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Curry, Eddy, Harding, Lea, Quay, Roosevelt	6 hr
Jun 22, 6:16 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Crockett, Dawson, Ector and 12 more	119 min
Jun 22, 7:16 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 14 more	89 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.