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Mesoscale Discussion 804
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 10, 2005, 2:23 PM CDT for 33 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2005, 2:23 PM CDT (19:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2005, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector 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, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Motley County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 1268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1432 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 8:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke and 42 more | 115 min |
| May 10, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Donley and 9 more | 7 hr |
| May 10, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Brewster, Cochran, Crane, Dawson, Ector and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 6:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Brewster, Briscoe and 47 more | 84 min |
Nearby
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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.