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Mesoscale Discussion 1552
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 29, 2003, 2:01 PM MDT for Curry County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2003, 2:01 PM MDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2003, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Curry County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Bailey County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -452 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1171 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 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 29, 1:27 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colfax, Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 5:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 7:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 96 min |
| Jun 28, 10:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hansford, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree, Sherman | 54 min |
| Jun 29, 12:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callahan, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hood, Jones and 4 more | 88 min |
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.