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Mesoscale Discussion 322
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 22, 2007, 8:43 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; Harmon County, Oklahoma; 31 counties in Texas. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2007, 8:43 PM MDT (02:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2007, 9:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Harmon County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Motley County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:45 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 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 1518 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 3:11 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Roosevelt | 94 min |
| Mar 23, 10:15 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colfax, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 2 more | 90 min |
| Mar 23, 12:20 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt | 115 min |
| Mar 23, 12:43 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Lincoln, Luna, Otero and 2 more | 62 min |
| Mar 23, 1:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bernalillo, Chaves, De Baca, Doña Ana, Grant, Guadalupe and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 23, 2:19 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Curry, Eddy, Lea, Quay, Roosevelt | 8 hr |
| Mar 23, 2:58 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harding, Union | 62 min |
| Mar 23, 4:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Sierra, Socorro and 2 more | 60 min |
| Mar 23, 5:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Lea, Roosevelt | 116 min |
| Mar 22, 6:27 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Garfield, Grant and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:40 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Harper, Texas | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2007Every mesoscale discussion in 2007
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.