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Mesoscale Discussion 1376

June 22, 2004Comanche County, Cotton County, Tillman County, Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 22, 2004, 2:48 AM CDT for Comanche County, Cotton County, Tillman County, Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2004, 2:48 AM CDT (07:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2004, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Foard County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 236 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: 2119 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1225 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.7

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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 21, 7:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Garfield, Grant and 16 more	83 min
Jun 21, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson	7 hr
Jun 21, 10:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 9 more	88 min
Jun 21, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Garfield, Kingfisher and 5 more	5 hr
Jun 21, 11:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Canadian, Carter, Cotton, Custer, Dewey and 10 more	93 min
Jun 21, 11:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson	91 min
Jun 22, 4:05 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and 10 more	2 hr
Jun 22, 10:27 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Brazoria, Cass, Chambers, Cherokee and 34 more	2 hr
Jun 22, 11:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Angelina, Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 14 more	5 hr
Jun 22, 3:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Panola, Sabine and 2 more	95 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.