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Mesoscale Discussion 1044
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 31, 2011, 6:30 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico; 33 counties in Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2011, 6:30 PM MDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2011, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1942 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1957 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 31, 8:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lea, Roosevelt | 56 min |
| Jun 1, 1:24 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harding, Quay, Union | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 2:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 1, 5:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 6 more | 53 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2011Every mesoscale discussion in 2011
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.