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Mesoscale Discussion 207
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 22, 2005, 4:27 PM CST for 39 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2005, 4:27 PM CST (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2005, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -365 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 22, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 37 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 22, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay and 40 more | 6 hr |
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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.