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Mesoscale Discussion 948
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 28, 2022, 3:00 PM CDT for 5 counties in Oklahoma; 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2022, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2022, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch possible
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 26 counties
Beckham County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Borden County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Howard County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Motley County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 275 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
- 899 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -433 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 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 28, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 6:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 3 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2022Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2022Every 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.