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Mesoscale Discussion 830
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 22, 2026, 5:47 PM MDT for Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico; 34 counties in Texas. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2026, 5:47 PM MDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2026, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe thunderstorm watch 240
All 36 counties
Curry County, NM, Quay County, NM, Armstrong County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Motley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1912 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 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 21, 7:43 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Ochiltree, Potter, Sherman | 92 min |
| May 22, 2:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Castro and 41 more | 2 hr |
| May 22, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 5:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kenedy | 85 min |
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.