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Mesoscale Discussion 595

May 8, 20044 counties in New Mexico; 25 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 8, 2004, 1:53 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 2004, 1:53 PM MDT (19:53 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 2004, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties

Curry County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler 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 211 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 557 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
557 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-216 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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.