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Mesoscale Discussion 321

March 19, 20064 counties in New Mexico; 14 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 19, 2006, 4:51 PM MST for 4 counties in New Mexico; 14 counties in Texas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 19, 2006, 4:51 PM MST (23:51 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2006, 5:45 PM MST
In force: 54 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Curry County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Terry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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 98Mar 19, 5:10 PM MST

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1328 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 12:28 PM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colfax, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln, Mora and 3 more	3 hr
Mar 18, 6:13 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Bandera, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 42 more	7 hr
Mar 18, 7:58 PM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 34 more	2 hr
Mar 18, 9:15 PM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 28 more	2 hr
Mar 18, 10:30 PM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 15 more	90 min
Mar 19, 12:23 AM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Crockett and 18 more	37 min
Mar 19, 1:05 AM MST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Blanco, Burnet, Concho, Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr and 9 more	6 hr
Mar 19, 3:47 AM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Blanco, Burnet, Concho, Edwards, Gillespie and 13 more	88 min
Mar 19, 6:55 AM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 43 more	35 min
Mar 19, 7:01 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Llano, Travis, Williamson	2 hr
Mar 19, 9:12 AM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Camp and 42 more	93 min
Mar 19, 11:15 AM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Glasscock and 13 more	2 hr
Mar 19, 2:02 PM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Coryell and 20 more	118 min
Mar 19, 2:38 PM MST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bandera, Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 20 more	5 hr
Mar 19, 4:36 PM MST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Brown, Concho, Edwards, Gillespie, Irion and 16 more	114 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2006 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2006 Every mesoscale discussion in 2006

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.