Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005

Mesoscale Discussion 1364

June 16, 20055 counties in New Mexico; 22 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 16, 2005, 3:49 PM MDT for 5 counties in New Mexico; 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 86 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2005, 3:49 PM MDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2005, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 86 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 27 counties

Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Terry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 407 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -389 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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 16, 12:29 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Freestone, Henderson, Houston and 8 more	2 hr
Jun 16, 1:54 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hansford, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Sherman	3 hr

Nearby

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