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Mesoscale Discussion 2337

October 13, 2005Eddy County, New Mexico; 20 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 13, 2005, 1:25 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Oct 13, 2005, 1:25 AM MDT (07:25 UTC)
Expired
Oct 13, 2005, 4:30 AM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties

Eddy County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Ector County, TX, El Paso County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 253 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2005-10-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2005-10-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1954 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 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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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.