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Mesoscale Discussion 791
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 30, 2016, 1:28 PM MDT for Chaves County, Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2016, 1:28 PM MDT (19:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2016, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 21 counties
Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 931 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -299 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 796 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
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 29, 6:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea | 85 min |
| May 29, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 35 more | 9 hr |
| May 29, 8:27 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 28 more | 2 hr |
| May 29, 10:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 18 more | 83 min |
| May 30, 8:41 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson, Lavaca, Victoria | 64 min |
| May 30, 4:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche and 15 more | 2 hr |
| May 30, 5:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Dawson and 15 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.