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Mesoscale Discussion 1068
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 27, 2008, 7:48 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico; Jefferson County, Oklahoma; 56 counties in Texas. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2008, 7:48 PM MDT (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2008, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 58 counties
Lea County, NM, Jefferson County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ector County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Terry County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Wise County, TX, Yoakum County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 2067 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1841 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
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 28, 1:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Los Alamos and 3 more | 96 min |
| May 28, 2:28 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 28, 4:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy and 16 more | 90 min |
| May 27, 8:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 42 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 10:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 34 more | 2 hr |
| May 28, 1:03 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Concho, Dawson, Ector, Glasscock and 15 more | 57 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2008Every 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.