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Mesoscale Discussion 1063
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 18, 2014, 2:19 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2014, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2014, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 42 counties
Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2946 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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 18, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 20 more | 94 min |
| Jun 18, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Texas and 2 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2014Every mesoscale discussion in 2014
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.