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Mesoscale Discussion 1342

July 9, 20155 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Oklahoma; 21 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 9, 2015, 2:13 PM MDT for 5 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Oklahoma; 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 2015, 2:13 PM MDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2015, 4:15 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 60%

All 27 counties

Curry County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 399Jul 9, 5:50 PM MDT

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
Jul 9, 4:19 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Doña Ana, Grant, Lincoln and 7 more	86 min
Jul 9, 2:26 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee and 4 more	2 hr
Jul 9, 5:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cimarron, Texas	6 hr
Jul 8, 6:14 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Deaf Smith, Donley and 9 more	91 min
Jul 8, 8:15 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Deaf Smith, Oldham and 3 more	90 min
Jul 8, 10:07 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Randall and 1 more	53 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.