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Mesoscale Discussion 1135

June 12, 2012Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico; 15 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 12, 2012, 3:08 AM MDT for Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 12, 2012, 3:08 AM MDT (09:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2012, 5:15 AM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 40%

Counties Curry County, NM, Quay County, NM, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Randall County, TX, Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 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 nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3195 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 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 12, 1:02 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colfax, Curry, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel and 1 more	88 min
Jun 12, 1:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel and 1 more	8 hr
Jun 12, 2:00 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln, Roosevelt	60 min
Jun 12, 2:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln and 1 more	8 hr
Jun 12, 4:42 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel, Union	63 min
Jun 11, 6:11 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 29 more	94 min
Jun 11, 8:54 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 31 more	66 min
Jun 11, 10:29 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Grayson	61 min
Jun 11, 10:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Delta, Fannin and 14 more	6 hr
Jun 12, 1:54 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 3 more	96 min
Jun 12, 2:21 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bowie, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Morris and 8 more	8 hr
Jun 12, 5:08 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Nacogdoches, Panola, Shelby	2 hr
Jun 12, 6:11 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler	8 hr
Jun 12, 8:23 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby	67 min
Jun 12, 9:32 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton and 19 more	88 min
Jun 12, 10:00 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Collin and 36 more	6 hr
Jun 12, 11:12 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange and 1 more	63 min
Jun 12, 1:45 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Coleman, Concho, Glasscock, Midland, Mitchell and 4 more	60 min
Jun 12, 2:28 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Brown, Burleson and 37 more	62 min
Jun 12, 2:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Austin, Bell, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson and 24 more	4 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2012 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2012 Every mesoscale discussion in 2012

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.