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Mesoscale Discussion 1071
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 18, 2014, 6:41 PM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Ellis County, Harper County, Oklahoma; 30 counties in Texas. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2014, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2014, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties
Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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 nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 84 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, 2:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell and 9 more | 56 min |
| Jun 18, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards and 38 more | 7 hr |
| 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.