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Mesoscale Discussion 1352
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 9, 2015, 8:09 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 96 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 2015, 8:09 PM MDT (02:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2015, 9:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Baca County, CO, Grant County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 1324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
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 10, 1:16 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Coffey, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 8 more | 59 min |
| Jul 10, 4:20 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ellis, Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks and 2 more | 115 min |
| Jul 9, 10:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Crosby, Donley and 16 more | 65 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.