Alert archive / New Mexico / Mesoscale Discussions in 2012
Mesoscale Discussion 1147
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 12, 2012, 6:38 PM MDT for 7 counties in New Mexico; 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2012, 6:38 PM MDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2012, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Culberson County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1015 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2690 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
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 13, 12:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 3 more | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 1:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 2:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Colorado, Fayette, Jackson, Lavaca, Wharton | 54 min |
| Jun 12, 8:11 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Carson and 28 more | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 8:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Carson and 43 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 10:11 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Carson and 38 more | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 4:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bosque, Cherokee, Dallas, Denton, Ellis and 19 more | 58 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2012Every 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.