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Mesoscale Discussion 334

March 23, 2007Lea County, New Mexico; 26 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 23, 2007, 10:32 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico; 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 23, 2007, 10:32 PM MDT (04:32 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 2007, 12:30 AM MDT
In force: 118 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 27 counties

Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:33 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 2078 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 8.1

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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 23, 8:54 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Eddy, Lea	6 hr
Mar 23, 7:19 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore and 3 more	116 min
Mar 24, 1:05 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Briscoe, Childress, Coke, Cottle, Crosby and 18 more	55 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2007 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2007 Every 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.