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Mesoscale Discussion 923

May 14, 2008Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 5 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 14, 2008, 11:12 AM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 2008, 11:12 AM MDT (17:12 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2008, 12:45 PM MDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:14 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.

Tornado Watch 320May 14, 11:50 AM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 368 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 814 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 7.6

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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
May 14, 11:47 AM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Lea	6 hr
May 14, 5:08 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lea	67 min
May 13, 6:11 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Panola	2 hr
May 13, 7:05 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Clay, Coleman, Comanche, Cooke, Denton and 10 more	85 min
May 13, 7:29 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Concho, Edwards and 15 more	91 min
May 13, 7:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke and 56 more	7 hr
May 13, 8:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell, Comal, Fayette and 5 more	6 hr
May 13, 10:41 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson and 18 more	94 min
May 13, 11:50 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Childress, Clay and 26 more	85 min
May 14, 12:19 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Dimmit and 19 more	56 min
May 14, 12:40 AM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Dimmit, Edwards and 12 more	6 hr
May 14, 1:28 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 58 more	92 min
May 14, 1:59 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 26 more	91 min
May 14, 2:39 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 25 more	6 hr
May 14, 4:13 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 29 more	92 min
May 14, 4:38 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Edwards, Frio, Kerr and 7 more	97 min
May 14, 5:42 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 30 more	63 min
May 14, 6:31 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Brazos and 34 more	119 min
May 14, 6:50 AM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee and 28 more	7 hr
May 14, 9:23 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Brazos and 34 more	97 min
May 14, 2:33 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crockett, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Menard and 5 more	27 min
May 14, 2:50 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bandera, Blanco, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman and 37 more	7 hr
May 14, 2:58 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Falls and 9 more	92 min
May 14, 4:12 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Orange	63 min
May 14, 5:40 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more	95 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2008 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2008 Every 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.