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Mesoscale Discussion 688

May 24, 2014Curry County, Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 15 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2014, 10:53 PM MDT for Curry County, Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2014, 10:53 PM MDT (04:53 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2014, 12:00 AM MDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Curry County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:56 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 953 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 848 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 24, 6:42 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lea	63 min
May 24, 8:20 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Curry, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt	55 min
May 24, 8:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt	6 hr
May 25, 12:12 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Curry, Quay	3 hr
May 25, 1:37 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt	113 min
May 25, 2:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln and 2 more	8 hr
May 24, 8:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Crockett, Schleicher, Sutton, Terrell, Val Verde	6 hr
May 25, 1:11 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crockett, Edwards, Kimble, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton and 1 more	94 min
May 25, 1:40 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dawson and 9 more	95 min
May 25, 9:15 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crockett, Irion, Schleicher, Tom Green	90 min
May 25, 11:50 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Pecos, Reeves	85 min
May 25, 12:35 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Crockett, Edwards, Gillespie and 16 more	115 min
May 25, 12:53 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bandera, Brewster, Brown, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 29 more	8 hr
May 25, 2:43 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blanco, Brewster, Brown, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 24 more	92 min
May 25, 5:12 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Kinney and 3 more	93 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.