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Mesoscale Discussion 1284

June 10, 200510 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 10, 2005, 4:05 PM CDT for 10 counties in Texas. It was in force for 85 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 2005, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 85 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Andrews County, TX, Crane County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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.

Tornado Watch 453Jun 10, 5:05 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 3111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 738 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 4.1

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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 9, 9:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 25 more	93 min
Jun 9, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 18 more	6 hr
Jun 10, 1:34 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cottle and 7 more	86 min
Jun 10, 7:58 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock, Howard and 11 more	92 min
Jun 10, 10:48 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Collingsworth, Crosby and 21 more	117 min
Jun 10, 11:30 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 30 more	7 hr
Jun 10, 2:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth and 15 more	2 hr
Jun 10, 2:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth and 15 more	2 hr
Jun 10, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dallam, Hartley	6 hr
Jun 10, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Eastland, Foard, Hardeman and 11 more	7 hr
Jun 10, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crane, Crockett, Ector and 23 more	7 hr
Jun 10, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Cochran and 24 more	6 hr
Jun 10, 6:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dallam, Hartley	56 min

Nearby

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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.