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Mesoscale Discussion 975
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 4, 2019, 1:40 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2019, 1:40 PM MDT (19:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2019, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 25 counties
Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Ector County, TX, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 299 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
- 428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -318 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 12:59 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Union | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lincoln, Otero, Roosevelt | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2019Every mesoscale discussion in 2019
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.