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Mesoscale Discussion 2202

September 14, 200512 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 14, 2005, 4:32 PM CDT for 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 88 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 14, 2005, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired: Sep 14, 2005, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 88 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Coke County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Ector County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Irion County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 455 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -189 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1720 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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
Sep 13, 9:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Foard, Hall, Hardeman and 3 more	87 min
Sep 14, 1:35 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Childress, Cottle, Hardeman, Wilbarger	55 min
Sep 14, 1:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Cottle, Dickens and 13 more	97 min
Sep 14, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Borden, Childress, Clay, Cooke and 24 more	7 hr
Sep 14, 5:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray and 6 more	118 min
Sep 14, 6:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Borden, Clay, Cooke, Cottle and 20 more	92 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.