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Mesoscale Discussion 915
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 26, 2012, 6:09 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 96 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2012, 6:09 PM MDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2012, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2907 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 27, 2:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 95 min |
| May 27, 2:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 8 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2012Every mesoscale discussion in 2012
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.