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Mesoscale Discussion 899

May 24, 2022Chaves County, Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 17 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2022, 11:59 AM MDT for Chaves County, Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 91 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2022, 11:59 AM MDT (17:59 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2022, 1:30 PM MDT
In force: 91 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...watch likely
Chance of a watch: 95%

Counties Chaves County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 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 268May 24, 1:00 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 966 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -232 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1287 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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, 6:20 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Curry, Harding, Quay, Union	85 min
May 23, 9:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Curry, Roosevelt	6 hr
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

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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.