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Mesoscale Discussion 1215
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 8, 2016, 4:11 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2016, 4:11 PM MDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2016, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 23 counties
Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -384 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2251 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 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 8, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Donley, Floyd and 6 more | 89 min |
| Jul 8, 3:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Childress, Cottle, Dickens, Foard, Hall, Hardeman and 7 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.