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Mesoscale Discussion 1164
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2012, 2:14 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2012, 2:14 PM MDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2012, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 37 counties
Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 2681 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1059 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 14, 2:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 9 hr |
| Jun 14, 12:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Logan, Norton and 8 more | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 2:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Jewell and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:07 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 27 more | 83 min |
| Jun 13, 7:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Camp, Cherokee, Collin, Dallas, Delta and 22 more | 87 min |
| Jun 13, 7:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Dawson, Ector and 12 more | 84 min |
| Jun 14, 12:36 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 36 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock and 11 more | 95 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.