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Mesoscale Discussion 981

June 3, 20074 counties in New Mexico; 15 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 3, 2007, 11:42 AM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2007, 11:42 AM MDT (17:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2007, 1:15 PM MDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Otero County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 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 watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Tornado Watch 338Jun 3, 12:25 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 1012 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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, 6:28 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Curry, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt, Union	62 min
Jun 3, 12:28 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Eddy, Lea	9 hr
Jun 3, 12:42 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel, Union	93 min
Jun 3, 1:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel and 1 more	7 hr
Jun 3, 4:09 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Eddy, Lea	66 min
Jun 3, 5:47 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 4 more	58 min
Jun 2, 8:45 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Castro, Crosby, Garza, Hale, Hockley and 5 more	60 min
Jun 2, 9:36 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 16 more	4 hr
Jun 3, 12:17 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Castro, Cochran, Coke and 32 more	58 min
Jun 3, 1:23 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Armstrong, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth and 11 more	67 min
Jun 3, 1:58 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more	5 hr
Jun 3, 2:01 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock, Irion and 7 more	89 min
Jun 3, 2:38 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens, Gaines, Garza and 6 more	67 min
Jun 3, 4:32 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Wichita	58 min
Jun 3, 6:04 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 19 more	56 min
Jun 3, 7:37 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bosque, Cherokee, Ellis, Falls and 31 more	5 hr
Jun 3, 10:47 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Panola, Polk and 6 more	58 min
Jun 3, 11:22 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Orange, Tyler	6 hr
Jun 3, 2:29 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Irion, McCulloch and 10 more	31 min
Jun 3, 2:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Irion and 10 more	6 hr
Jun 3, 2:55 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Brazos, Coryell, Falls, Grimes, Lampasas and 10 more	95 min
Jun 3, 2:59 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Borden, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 12 more	91 min
Jun 3, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazoria, Brazos and 37 more	7 hr
Jun 3, 4:48 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jefferson, Orange, Sabine, San Augustine	87 min
Jun 3, 4:51 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Irion and 10 more	54 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.