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June 13, 20236 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 13, 2023, 6:57 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2023, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2023, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe thunderstorm watch 283

Counties Carson County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 286Jun 13, 7:55 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -250 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Comanche, Coryell and 7 more	86 min
Jun 12, 9:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Burnet, Comanche, Coryell, Erath and 10 more	57 min
Jun 13, 2:52 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Clay and 32 more	83 min
Jun 13, 3:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 28 more	7 hr
Jun 13, 5:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Cooke, Dallas and 23 more	96 min
Jun 13, 8:02 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Fannin, Franklin and 14 more	88 min
Jun 13, 9:30 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Fannin, Franklin and 14 more	60 min
Jun 13, 11:22 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison, Hopkins and 7 more	2 hr
Jun 13, 12:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 10 more	5 hr
Jun 13, 1:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dallam, Hansford, Sherman	83 min
Jun 13, 1:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Erath and 15 more	90 min
Jun 13, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis and 17 more	6 hr
Jun 13, 2:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Morris and 5 more	2 hr
Jun 13, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Carson, Dallam, Gray, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill and 7 more	7 hr
Jun 13, 4:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 11 more	86 min
Jun 13, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 10 more	6 hr
Jun 13, 4:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carson, Dallam, Gray, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill and 7 more	84 min
Jun 13, 5:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis and 17 more	86 min

Nearby

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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.