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Mesoscale Discussion 625

May 13, 20166 counties in New Mexico; Culberson County, Loving County, Reeves County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 13, 2016, 2:30 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; Culberson County, Loving County, Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 90 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 2016, 2:30 PM MDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 2016, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
90 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%

Counties Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Culberson County, TX, Loving County, TX, Reeves County, TX

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 286 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2016-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 371 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2016-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
371 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-253 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1700 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 12:40 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley and 11 more2 hr
May 13, 2:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson, Castro and 36 more8 hr
May 13, 5:17 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson, Castro and 29 more118 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.