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Mesoscale Discussion 878
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 14, 2005, 1:07 PM MDT for Chaves County, Eddy County, Otero County, New Mexico; 23 counties in Texas. It was in force for 83 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2005, 1:07 PM MDT (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2005, 2:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Otero County, NM, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Ector County, TX, El Paso County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Menard County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 1818 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 14, 1:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Eddy, Otero | 7 hr |
| May 13, 7:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 26 more | 55 min |
| May 13, 8:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland, Haskell and 5 more | 83 min |
| May 13, 11:25 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Eastland and 14 more | 35 min |
| May 14, 11:13 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Panola, Shelby | 3 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.