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Mesoscale Discussion 1035

May 25, 200825 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 25, 2008, 8:54 PM CDT for 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2008, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2008, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 25 counties

Andrews County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Castro County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hale County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Swisher 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 58 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 948 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 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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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 9:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill and 3 more	2 hr
May 26, 1:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb and 3 more	59 min
May 26, 1:46 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley and 9 more	6 hr
May 26, 1:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Coke, Cottle, Crane, Crosby, Dawson and 22 more	95 min
May 26, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Cottle, Crane and 32 more	7 hr
May 26, 3:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley and 9 more	96 min
May 26, 6:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2008 Every mesoscale discussion in 2008

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.