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Mesoscale Discussion 799
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 6, 2008, 5:01 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico; 33 counties in Texas. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2008, 5:01 PM MDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2008, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 1418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 6:59 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 61 min |
| May 5, 7:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt | 5 hr |
| May 5, 9:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt | 64 min |
| May 6, 12:27 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| May 6, 2:26 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Curry, Lea, Roosevelt | 7 hr |
| May 6, 5:19 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Coke and 45 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2008Every mesoscale discussion in 2008
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.