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Mesoscale Discussion 1176

June 5, 20055 counties in Oklahoma; 14 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 5, 2005, 4:12 AM CDT for 5 counties in Oklahoma; 14 counties in Texas. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2005, 4:12 AM CDT (09:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2005, 5:45 AM CDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Carter County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Love County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Archer County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Montague County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:12 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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 3271 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1268 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 5.4

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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 4, 7:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata and 3 more	96 min
Jun 4, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal, Craig and 25 more	2 hr
Jun 4, 10:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 53 more	52 min
Jun 4, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 24 more	7 hr
Jun 4, 11:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Love	4 hr
Jun 5, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	LeFlore	5 hr
Jun 5, 3:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 11 more	85 min
Jun 5, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beckham, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 10 more	7 hr
Jun 4, 7:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 17 more	84 min
Jun 4, 10:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Dimmit, Duval, Frio, La Salle, Live Oak and 3 more	59 min
Jun 5, 2:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Newton, Sabine	95 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.