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Mesoscale Discussion 2092
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 14, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2008, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Clark County, KS, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth 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, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 14, 2:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellsworth, Kingman, Lincoln, McPherson and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 3:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Cowley, Edwards, Ellis and 19 more | 94 min |
| Aug 14, 12:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 22 more | 88 min |
| Aug 14, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Meade and 4 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 14, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, Curry, Lea, Roosevelt | 5 hr |
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.