Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2007
Mesoscale Discussion 1884
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 24, 2007, 2:29 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 91 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2007, 2:29 PM MDT (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2007, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 91 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Las Animas County, CO, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Union County, NM, Beckham County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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 nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 982 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 680 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 394 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 6:18 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Custer, Elbert and 10 more | 117 min |
| Aug 23, 6:39 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 2 hr |
| Aug 24, 12:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa and 2 more | 89 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2007Every mesoscale discussion in 2007
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.