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Mesoscale Discussion 967

June 2, 20074 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 2, 2007, 1:42 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2007, 1:42 PM MDT (19:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2007, 3:15 PM MDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 26 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 205 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 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 332Jun 2, 3:25 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -277 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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 2, 3:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Las Animas and 2 more	7 hr
Jun 1, 6:27 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colfax, Curry, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt	63 min
Jun 1, 7:25 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Craig, Delaware, Kay, Mayes, Nowata, Osage and 4 more	65 min
Jun 1, 6:30 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Clay, Haskell, Jack, Jones, Montague and 6 more	60 min
Jun 1, 7:24 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 19 more	4 hr
Jun 1, 9:32 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 19 more	58 min
Jun 1, 10:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bosque, Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis and 16 more	3 hr
Jun 2, 1:34 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 45 more	56 min
Jun 2, 1:45 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche and 17 more	4 hr
Jun 2, 5:03 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche and 19 more	57 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2007 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2007 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2007 Every mesoscale discussion in 2007

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.