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Mesoscale Discussion 1061

June 2, 200429 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 2, 2004, 6:08 PM CDT for 29 counties in Texas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2004, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 29 counties

Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 88 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: 1755 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -233 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 1, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Bosque, Cherokee, Coryell and 39 more	6 hr
Jun 1, 10:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Camp, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 16 more	60 min
Jun 1, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Newton	5 hr
Jun 2, 1:34 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Bosque, Cherokee, Coryell and 38 more	116 min
Jun 2, 11:26 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Bosque, Brazoria and 39 more	2 hr
Jun 2, 1:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dallam	3 hr
Jun 2, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clay	4 hr
Jun 2, 3:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Briscoe, Cottle, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 21 more	116 min
Jun 2, 3:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hansford and 10 more	7 hr
Jun 2, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Cottle, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 16 more	5 hr
Jun 2, 4:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Lamar, Red River	56 min
Jun 2, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Marion, Morris, Titus and 1 more	6 hr
Jun 2, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Callahan, Camp and 48 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2004 Every mesoscale discussion in 2004

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.