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Mesoscale Discussion 1065

May 27, 200810 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 27, 2008, 5:50 PM CDT for 10 counties in Texas. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2008, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2008, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Andrews County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Ector County, TX, Loving County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 222 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 2496 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 791 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 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 26, 7:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Cottle, Crane, Crockett and 22 more	2 hr
May 26, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hemphill and 4 more	7 hr
May 26, 10:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Collingsworth, Wheeler	116 min
May 27, 9:23 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Fannin, Franklin and 14 more	97 min
May 27, 12:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bosque, Cherokee, Falls, Freestone and 17 more	97 min
May 27, 12:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bowie, Cass, Cherokee, Freestone and 15 more	6 hr
May 27, 1:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Foard and 8 more	2 hr
May 27, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan and 45 more	7 hr
May 27, 5:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque and 55 more	2 hr
May 27, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 18 more	4 hr
May 27, 6:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Bell, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 32 more	97 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.