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Mesoscale Discussion 939
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2010, 12:17 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico; 17 counties in Oklahoma; 43 counties in Texas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2010, 12:17 PM MDT (18:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2010, 1:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties
Lea County, NM, Caddo County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Motley County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 2913 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
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 14, 12:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lea | 9 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colfax, Union | 89 min |
| Jun 13, 6:39 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greer, Harmon, Jackson | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 7:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Kay | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 9:58 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 11 more | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 12:31 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ottawa | 119 min |
| Jun 14, 1:09 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble, Osage, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche and 22 more | 67 min |
| Jun 14, 5:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman and 1 more | 55 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2010Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2010Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2010Every mesoscale discussion in 2010
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.