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Mesoscale Discussion 1592

July 2, 200522 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 2, 2005, 4:47 AM CDT for 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 88 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 2005, 4:47 AM CDT (09:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2005, 6:15 AM CDT
In force: 88 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 22 counties

Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:48 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 1011 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.2

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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
Jul 1, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Carson, Dallam, Gray, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill and 7 more	7 hr
Jul 1, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crosby and 33 more	6 hr
Jul 1, 8:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Ector, Gaines and 7 more	84 min
Jul 1, 10:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crosby and 34 more	97 min
Jul 1, 10:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carson, Dallam, Gray, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill and 7 more	91 min
Jul 2, 1:32 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Armstrong, Baylor, Bosque, Briscoe, Brown and 60 more	28 min
Jul 2, 10:06 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Nacogdoches, Panola and 6 more	114 min
Jul 2, 11:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Houston, Jasper and 10 more	6 hr
Jul 2, 12:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Panola, Rusk and 4 more	92 min
Jul 2, 2:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jasper, Newton, Tyler	87 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.