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June 14, 201525 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2015, 9:34 PM CDT for 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 86 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2015, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2015, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 86 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 25 counties

Armstrong County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Motley County, TX, Randall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:35 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 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 1282 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1147 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 14, 7:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Armstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Castro and 37 more	87 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2015 Every mesoscale discussion in 2015

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.