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Mesoscale Discussion 633
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 16, 2016, 1:06 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 84 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2016, 1:06 PM MDT (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2016, 2:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 36 counties
Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Morton County, KS, Union County, NM, Beckham County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 1:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Las Animas | 11 hr |
| May 16, 2:24 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Concho, Crockett, Irion, Menard, Presidio and 7 more | 2 hr |
| May 16, 4:58 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.