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Mesoscale Discussion 810

May 26, 20195 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 26, 2019, 11:19 AM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 116 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2019, 11:19 AM MDT (17:19 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2019, 1:15 PM MDT
In force: 116 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 95%

All 56 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Curry County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:19 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 1256 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 944 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 12:27 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 4 more	9 hr
May 26, 2:07 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Larimer and 2 more	113 min
May 26, 2:43 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 6 more	92 min
May 26, 3:46 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Elbert, Lincoln, Morgan and 2 more	4 hr
May 26, 5:04 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Prowers	86 min
May 25, 7:21 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 22 more	54 min
May 25, 7:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 27 more	6 hr
May 26, 4:27 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Cloud, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Graham and 19 more	63 min
May 26, 4:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Ford, Gray and 16 more	6 hr
May 26, 5:56 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Morton, Seward, Stevens	64 min
May 26, 12:30 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Eddy, Lea	2 hr
May 26, 1:32 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union	7 hr
May 26, 2:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt	6 hr
May 26, 5:51 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Curry, Lea, Roosevelt	114 min
May 25, 7:55 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more	95 min
May 25, 10:00 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Creek, Lincoln, Okfuskee, Oklahoma	60 min
May 26, 12:39 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Ottawa, Sequoyah	2 hr
May 25, 7:29 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crockett, Reagan, Upton	91 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2019 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2019 Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2019 Every 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.