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Mesoscale Discussion 1656

July 5, 2005Lea County, New Mexico; 22 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 5, 2005, 2:58 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico; 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 2005, 2:58 AM MDT (08:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2005, 4:00 AM MDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 23 counties

Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Terry County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 1385 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3207 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 4, 8:23 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Curry, Quay, Roosevelt	67 min
Jul 5, 12:48 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lea	27 min
Jul 5, 1:00 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Lea	4 hr
Jul 5, 12:34 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union	56 min
Jul 5, 1:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union	8 hr
Jul 4, 6:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Camp, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 23 more	5 hr
Jul 4, 6:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Borden, Callahan, Coke, Concho, Fisher, Glasscock and 14 more	6 hr
Jul 4, 8:21 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Fisher and 15 more	114 min
Jul 4, 8:41 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Camp, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 22 more	2 hr
Jul 5, 5:06 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree and 2 more	84 min

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.