Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005

Mesoscale Discussion 1202

June 6, 200510 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Oklahoma; 22 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 6, 2005, 1:20 PM MDT for 10 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Oklahoma; 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2005, 1:20 PM MDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2005, 2:15 PM MDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 33 counties

Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 419Jun 6, 1:40 PM MDT

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 1383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 788 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 1:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Harding, Lea and 3 more	7 hr
Jun 5, 6:11 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 3 more	94 min
Jun 5, 9:41 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 8 more	94 min
Jun 5, 10:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Jefferson and 6 more	4 hr
Jun 6, 1:16 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Craig, Grant, Kay, Mayes, Noble and 7 more	89 min
Jun 6, 11:38 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, LeFlore, Sequoyah	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.