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Mesoscale Discussion 901

June 13, 2016Beaver County, Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 13, 2016, 6:12 PM CDT for Beaver County, Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2016, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 95%

Counties Beaver County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 75 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1377 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 2:27 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cimarron, Texas	8 hr
Jun 13, 5:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cimarron	89 min
Jun 13, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beaver, Cimarron, Texas	6 hr
Jun 13, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Woodward	6 hr
Jun 13, 4:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Cochran, Dawson, Gaines and 10 more	3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2016 Every 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.