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Mesoscale Discussion 568
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 11, 2020, 5:18 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 27 counties in Texas. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 2020, 5:18 PM MDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2020, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, Eddy, Lea, Quay, Roosevelt | 67 min |
| May 11, 4:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Quay | 119 min |
| May 11, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 6 hr |
| May 11, 5:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, Curry, Roosevelt | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2020Every mesoscale discussion in 2020
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.