Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 2300
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 5, 2004, 5:14 PM MDT for Chaves County, Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 11 counties in Texas. It was in force for 91 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 5, 2004, 5:14 PM MDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2004, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 91 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Loving County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 1:57 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt | 63 min |
| Oct 5, 4:53 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Doña Ana, Lincoln, Otero, Roosevelt | 67 min |
| Oct 5, 9:20 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Quay, Roosevelt and 3 more | 115 min |
| Oct 5, 11:55 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bernalillo, Chaves, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Sandoval and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 5, 1:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bernalillo, Eddy, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Otero, Rio Arriba and 5 more | 117 min |
| Oct 5, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Doña Ana, Eddy, Lea, Otero | 5 hr |
| Oct 5, 4:15 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Doña Ana, Eddy, Lea, Otero | 90 min |
| Oct 5, 5:35 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Otero | 4 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.