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Mesoscale Discussion 981
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 1, 2018, 5:22 PM MDT for Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 50 counties in Texas. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2018, 5:22 PM MDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2018, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
All 52 counties
Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Archer County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Coke County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Terry County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Yoakum County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 370 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
- 802 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 1, 1:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Foard and 17 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2018Every mesoscale discussion in 2018
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.