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Mesoscale Discussion 1086
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 29, 2008, 5:49 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2008, 5:49 PM MDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2008, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties
Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray 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
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 1326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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 29, 11:24 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Weld | 96 min |
| May 29, 12:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 65 min |
| May 29, 12:33 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma | 7 hr |
| May 29, 1:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Las Animas and 2 more | 10 hr |
| May 29, 12:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Sheridan | 61 min |
| May 29, 1:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham and 14 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 4:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis and 29 more | 35 min |
| May 29, 5:43 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 28, 6:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy and 17 more | 64 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 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.