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Mesoscale Discussion 892

May 23, 20224 counties in New Mexico; 15 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 23, 2022, 6:20 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 85 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2022, 6:20 PM MDT (00:20 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2022, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 85 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe thunderstorm watch 265

Counties Curry County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Union County, NM, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 267May 23, 9:25 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -383 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1327 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 9:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Curry, Roosevelt	6 hr
May 24, 11:59 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Lea, Roosevelt	91 min
May 24, 1:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt	7 hr
May 24, 3:26 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chaves, Eddy, Lea	94 min
May 23, 7:32 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brooks, Dimmit, Duval, Jim Hogg, La Salle, McMullen and 2 more	118 min
May 23, 8:53 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Castro, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Hale and 7 more	67 min
May 23, 9:43 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Starr, Willacy	2 hr
May 24, 1:18 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 5 more	117 min
May 24, 8:48 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Harris, Jefferson and 2 more	87 min
May 24, 12:42 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 43 more	93 min
May 24, 1:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke and 52 more	7 hr
May 24, 3:49 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Coleman, Collin, Comanche, Concho and 41 more	116 min
May 24, 4:57 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dimmit, Kinney, Maverick, Zavala	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2022 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2022 Every mesoscale discussion in 2022

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.