Alert archive / New Mexico / Mesoscale Discussions in 2019
Mesoscale Discussion 421
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 22, 2019, 6:41 PM MDT for Chaves County, Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; Loving County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 2019, 6:41 PM MDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2019, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
Counties Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Loving County, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 426 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1193 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 8:24 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens, Foard and 8 more | 96 min |
| Apr 23, 12:28 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 14 more | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 12:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 20 more | 114 min |
| Apr 23, 1:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin, Comanche and 40 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Culberson, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Loving, Pecos and 3 more | 113 min |
| Apr 23, 4:11 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland and 24 more | 94 min |
| Apr 23, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves and 2 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2019Every mesoscale discussion in 2019
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.