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Mesoscale Discussion 1173
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 6, 2016, 4:39 PM CDT for Beckham County, Harmon County, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma; 32 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2016, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 35 counties
Beckham County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle 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, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -486 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2467 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 11:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Grant, Kay, Woods | 115 min |
| Jul 6, 1:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Craig, Grant, Kay, Nowata, Osage and 2 more | 85 min |
| Jul 6, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Craig, Kay, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Washington | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2016Every mesoscale discussion in 2016
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.