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Mesoscale Discussion 688

May 22, 2016Irion County, Reagan County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 22, 2016, 9:35 PM CDT for Irion County, Reagan County, Texas. It was in force for 85 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2016, 9:35 PM CDT (02:35 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 85 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Irion County, TX, Reagan County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
May 22, 7:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth and 22 more	118 min
May 22, 7:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Hardeman, Wichita, Wilbarger	89 min
May 22, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more	5 hr
May 22, 9:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Dickens, Donley, Gray and 10 more	65 min
May 23, 1:36 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Montague and 2 more	84 min
May 23, 2:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Clay, Cooke, Grayson, Montague, Wichita and 1 more	5 hr
May 23, 4:58 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Fannin, Grayson and 3 more	62 min
May 23, 1:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Coke, Crockett, Crosby, Dawson, Garza and 15 more	118 min
May 23, 2:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Donley, Hall, Hemphill and 2 more	117 min
May 23, 2:32 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Borden, Brewster, Briscoe, Childress, Coke, Cottle and 37 more	7 hr
May 23, 3:37 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Collingsworth, Donley, Foard, Gray, Hardeman, Hemphill and 6 more	8 hr
May 23, 5:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Briscoe, Coke, Cottle, Crockett, Crosby and 30 more	91 min
May 23, 6:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Collingsworth, Donley, Foard, Hardeman, Hemphill, Knox and 3 more	2 hr

Nearby

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