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Mesoscale Discussion 929
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 7, 2015, 5:19 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 86 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2015, 5:19 PM MDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2015, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Clark County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 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 6, 6:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 7 more | 95 min |
| Jun 6, 9:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Denver, Elbert, Kiowa and 6 more | 57 min |
| Jun 7, 1:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 17 more | 114 min |
| Jun 7, 2:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 4:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 27 more | 89 min |
| Jun 7, 12:14 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 6 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.