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Mesoscale Discussion 1178
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 15, 2012, 5:51 PM MDT for Curry County, Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 84 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2012, 5:51 PM MDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2012, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 24 counties
Curry County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 536 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -474 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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, 7:12 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 40 more | 93 min |
| Jun 14, 8:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Eastland, Fisher and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:40 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Eastland, Fisher and 11 more | 65 min |
| Jun 15, 12:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee and 18 more | 64 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.