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Mesoscale Discussion 1129

June 2, 200512 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 2, 2005, 7:26 PM CDT for 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 94 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2005, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2005, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 94 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Ector County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

Tornado Watch 379Jun 2, 9:05 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1625 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2374 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 9:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett and 27 more	7 hr
Jun 2, 11:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett and 26 more	91 min
Jun 2, 11:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more	7 hr
Jun 3, 3:16 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Brewster, Cochran, Coke and 36 more	89 min
Jun 3, 3:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baylor, Borden, Coke, Cottle, Crockett, Dickens and 24 more	6 hr
Jun 3, 6:45 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Foard, Hardeman, Wichita, Wilbarger	90 min
Jun 3, 7:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Wichita, Wilbarger	7 hr
Jun 3, 8:57 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Burleson and 20 more	63 min
Jun 3, 11:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Burnet and 52 more	8 hr
Jun 3, 11:58 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Cottle, Dickens and 13 more	2 hr
Jun 3, 1:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson and 22 more	116 min
Jun 3, 1:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Knox, Montague, Wichita and 1 more	5 hr
Jun 3, 3:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Haskell, Jack and 6 more	2 hr
Jun 3, 5:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos and 23 more	92 min
Jun 3, 5:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger	58 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2005 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.