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Mesoscale Discussion 1316
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 17, 2004, 2:01 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Oklahoma; 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2004, 2:01 PM MDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2004, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- -529 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1350 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 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 17, 12:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colfax, Union | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:35 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Texas | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 9:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray and 12 more | 59 min |
| Jun 17, 3:24 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Ector, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis and 7 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2004Every 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.