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Mesoscale Discussion 884
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 7, 2014, 4:51 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico; 23 counties in Texas. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2014, 4:51 PM MDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2014, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 24 counties
Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Terry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 900 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -557 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 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 7, 2:27 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt | 2 hr |
| Jun 7, 4:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 7, 5:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lea | 9 hr |
| Jun 6, 6:09 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 12:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger | 2 hr |
| Jun 7, 4:44 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 28 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.