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Mesoscale Discussion 618
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 22, 2006, 1:52 PM MDT for 7 counties in New Mexico; 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 2006, 1:52 PM MDT (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2006, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 281 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1847 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 5:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, Eddy, Lea, Quay, Roosevelt | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2006Every 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.