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Mesoscale Discussion 911
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 8, 2014, 7:24 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 96 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2014, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2014, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 57 counties
Morton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 919 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
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 9, 2:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Kingman, Labette and 4 more | 118 min |
| Jun 8, 11:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Quay | 86 min |
| Jun 9, 2:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Roosevelt | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 7 hr |
| Jun 8, 7:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Panola, Sabine and 2 more | 88 min |
| Jun 8, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bowie, Cass, Harrison, Marion | 7 hr |
| Jun 8, 9:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crane, Loving, Pecos, Reeves, Ward, Winkler | 94 min |
| Jun 8, 10:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass | 97 min |
| Jun 9, 12:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 3:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, Dimmit, Duval, Frio and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Burleson, Caldwell and 17 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.