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Mesoscale Discussion 1699

July 28, 2009Las Animas County, Colorado; 13 counties in New Mexico; 8 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 28, 2009, 12:26 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado; 13 counties in New Mexico; 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 94 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 2009, 12:26 PM MDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2009, 2:00 PM MDT
In force: 94 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 22 counties

Las Animas County, CO, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lea County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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 631Jul 28, 1:20 PM MDT

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
Jul 28, 1:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Costilla, Custer, Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo	8 hr
Jul 28, 12:41 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 8 more	94 min
Jul 28, 4:57 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 8 more	78 min
Jul 28, 6:58 AM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 8 more	7 hr
Jul 28, 10:25 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Panola, Rusk, Upshur	65 min
Jul 28, 4:47 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray, Hansford, Hemphill and 9 more	88 min
Jul 28, 5:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Cochran and 26 more	7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2009 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2009 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2009 Every mesoscale discussion in 2009

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.