Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 2289
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 3, 2004, 9:40 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; 27 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 3, 2004, 9:40 PM MDT (03:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2004, 12:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Chaves County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Motley County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:43 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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 991 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 6:31 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 29 min |
| Oct 4, 4:15 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 9:14 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Falls, Freestone, Grimes and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 4, 12:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chambers, Hardin, Harris, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 4, 3:43 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet and 17 more | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.