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Mesoscale Discussion 989
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 3, 2007, 4:09 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2007, 4:09 PM MDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2007, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 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
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 2, 6:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt, Union | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 11:42 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Otero | 93 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, 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, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2007Every 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.