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Mesoscale Discussion 543
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 5, 2019, 2:04 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2019, 2:04 PM MDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2019, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 21 counties
Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 4, 6:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Deaf Smith, Gaines, Hansford and 12 more | 87 min |
| May 5, 2:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 36 more | 119 min |
| May 5, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 38 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 3:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 5:14 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Castro and 40 more | 91 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.