Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 2010
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 15, 2004, 1:55 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 2004, 1:55 PM MDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2004, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Chaves County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Sierra County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 949 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 6:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Harding, Quay, Union | 113 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2004Every mesoscale discussion in 2004
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.