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Mesoscale Discussion 2215
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 17, 2005, 2:41 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 17, 2005, 2:41 PM MDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2005, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 572 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 17, 4:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray and 6 more | 58 min |
| Sep 17, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler | 3 hr |
| Sep 17, 5:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 11 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.