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Mesoscale Discussion 704
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 25, 2014, 6:13 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; Beaver County, Oklahoma; 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 92 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2014, 6:13 PM MDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2014, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 688 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1169 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 25, 8:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lea | 66 min |
| May 26, 5:18 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Kiowa, Tillman | 87 min |
| May 26, 3:07 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bee, DeWitt, Goliad, Karnes, Victoria | 113 min |
| May 26, 9:09 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 20 more | 66 min |
| May 26, 1:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Coke, Crockett, Crosby, Dawson and 22 more | 61 min |
| May 26, 2:03 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Cottle and 44 more | 8 hr |
| May 26, 2:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston and 8 more | 61 min |
| May 26, 2:50 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Fort Bend and 11 more | 4 hr |
| May 26, 4:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brazoria, Chambers, Liberty, Nueces | 59 min |
| May 26, 5:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Coke, Crockett, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 23 more | 88 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2014Every 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.