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Mesoscale Discussion 959
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 11, 2014, 2:46 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico; 44 counties in Texas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2014, 2:46 PM MDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2014, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 45 counties
Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Coke County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Menard County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Terry County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -696 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2469 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 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 11, 3:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Harding, Quay, Union | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 2:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Borden, Callahan, Coke, Concho, Crane, Crockett and 30 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 11, 4:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts and 1 more | 57 min |
| Jun 11, 4:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb and 4 more | 6 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.