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Mesoscale Discussion 926
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 17, 2020, 1:52 PM MDT for 5 counties in New Mexico; 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2020, 1:52 PM MDT (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2020, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch unlikely
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 33 counties
Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Randall County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 961 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -287 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 17, 5:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Crosby, Dawson and 28 more | 61 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2020Every mesoscale discussion in 2020
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.