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Mesoscale Discussion 1316
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 6, 2015, 2:22 PM CDT for 11 counties in Oklahoma; 45 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2015, 2:22 PM CDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2015, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 56 counties
Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Ector County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Randall County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 379 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1396 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 6:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Craig, Custer, Garfield, Grant and 11 more | 115 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2015Every 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.