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Mesoscale Discussion 890

June 7, 2014Lea County, New Mexico; 8 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 7, 2014, 10:43 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico; 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2014, 10:43 PM MDT (04:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2014, 12:15 AM MDT
In force: 92 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Howard County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 80 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1389 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -129 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 8:50 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt and 1 more	85 min
Jun 8, 1:02 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lea	118 min
Jun 8, 1:37 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colfax, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln, Mora and 3 more	53 min
Jun 8, 1:55 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 7 more	8 hr
Jun 8, 4:09 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Eddy, Lea	8 hr
Jun 8, 4:25 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Colfax, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Quay and 2 more	2 hr
Jun 7, 6:06 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Montague and 2 more	2 hr
Jun 7, 7:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Fannin, Foard and 6 more	8 hr
Jun 7, 8:55 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Red River	2 hr
Jun 8, 9:32 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Coke, Crosby, Dawson, Fisher, Gaines and 16 more	118 min
Jun 8, 12:39 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 10 more	2 hr
Jun 8, 1:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bowie, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Panola, Sabine and 2 more	7 hr
Jun 8, 1:43 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Coke, Concho, Crane, Crockett, Ector and 27 more	3 hr
Jun 8, 2:37 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cass, Harrison, Marion, Panola, Shelby	83 min
Jun 8, 5:34 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brewster, Concho, Coryell, Crockett, Hamilton and 14 more	86 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2014 Every 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.