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Mesoscale Discussion 1167
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2012, 7:12 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 93 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2012, 7:12 PM MDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2012, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 83 counties
Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1334 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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 15, 12:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert and 12 more | 96 min |
| Jun 15, 1:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, Lincoln and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 28 more | 53 min |
| Jun 14, 8:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:40 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton | 65 min |
| Jun 15, 12:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McCurtain | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 5:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 15 more | 84 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.