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Mesoscale Discussion 1712

September 17, 20164 counties in New Mexico; 26 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 17, 2016, 4:56 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico; 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 17, 2016, 4:56 PM MDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired: Sep 17, 2016, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 30 counties

Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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 watches that followed

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

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 482Sep 17, 8:55 PM MDT

The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 17, 1:33 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Eddy, Lea	57 min
Sep 17, 1:38 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harding, Union	2 hr
Sep 17, 2:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln	7 hr
Sep 17, 2:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel, Union	10 hr
Sep 17, 4:33 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union	117 min
Sep 16, 6:05 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Ector, Glasscock, Howard and 6 more	115 min
Sep 17, 12:18 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Collingsworth, Wheeler	87 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2016 Every mesoscale discussion in 2016

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.