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Mesoscale Discussion 1292
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 15, 2016, 2:01 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 2016, 2:01 PM MDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2016, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 26 counties
Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Moore 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 Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 314 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 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 14, 7:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel, Union | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 7:43 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche and 24 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 9:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 6:38 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Collin, Dallas, Denton, Hunt, Kaufman, Rains and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:16 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Collingsworth, Gray, Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb and 3 more | 119 min |
| Jul 15, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 23 more | 6 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.