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Mesoscale Discussion 1053

May 29, 20056 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 29, 2005, 11:56 AM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 2005, 11:56 AM MDT (17:56 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2005, 2:00 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Colfax County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -63 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 6:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Burnet, Cherokee, Concho, Coryell and 19 more5 hr
May 28, 7:19 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Dimmit, Frio, Kendall and 7 more86 min
May 28, 7:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Dimmit and 10 more4 hr
May 28, 9:08 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtascosa, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 11 more97 min
May 28, 10:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtascosa, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 15 more5 hr
May 28, 11:57 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAransas, Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar and 46 more93 min
May 29, 12:20 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAustin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend and 10 more4 hr
May 29, 3:12 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAustin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend and 10 more2 hr
May 29, 10:47 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAransas, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt and 13 more58 min
May 29, 12:42 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAransas, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt and 13 more93 min
May 29, 1:20 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAtascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Brazoria and 41 more9 hr
May 29, 2:48 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Bosque, Burnet, Comanche, Coryell, Ellis and 18 more87 min
May 29, 3:40 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet, Comanche, Coryell and 20 more95 min
May 29, 3:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAngelina, Hardin, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk and 6 more7 hr
May 29, 4:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Blanco, Burnet, Coryell, Falls and 9 more6 hr
May 29, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrooks, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kenedy and 5 more7 hr
May 29, 5:20 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAngelina, Hardin, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk and 6 more85 min
May 29, 5:42 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Brazoria and 39 more93 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2005Every mesoscale discussion in 2005

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.