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Mesoscale Discussion 324
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 23, 2007, 10:15 AM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 11 counties in Texas. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2007, 10:15 AM MDT (16:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2007, 11:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Colfax County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:15 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 831 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 801 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 22, 8:43 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 62 min |
| Mar 23, 3:11 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Roosevelt | 94 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.