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Mesoscale Discussion 655

May 22, 20145 counties in Colorado; 10 counties in New Mexico; 4 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 22, 2014, 11:32 AM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado; 10 counties in New Mexico; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 88 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2014, 11:32 AM MDT (17:32 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2014, 1:00 PM MDT
In force: 88 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 80%

Counties Crowley County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Bailey County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 173May 22, 11:55 AM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 679 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -247 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1350 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 22, 11:53 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Kiowa and 4 more	7 hr
May 22, 12:07 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 6 more	83 min
May 22, 12:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 6 more	6 hr
May 22, 4:55 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Prowers	65 min
May 22, 5:50 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Kit Carson, Yuma	55 min
May 22, 1:51 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Eddy, Lea	54 min
May 21, 6:15 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Armstrong, Borden, Brewster, Briscoe, Carson and 30 more	60 min
May 22, 1:22 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts	113 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2014 Every mesoscale discussion in 2014

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.