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Mesoscale Discussion 2059
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 23, 2005, 2:51 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2005, 2:51 PM MDT (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2005, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Baca County, CO, Grant County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Quay County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 689 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 12:25 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 3:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Phillips and 3 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 22, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 22, 10:20 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray, Haskell and 5 more | 85 min |
| Aug 22, 11:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Elk, Harper and 8 more | 65 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2005Every 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.