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Mesoscale Discussion 788
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 5, 2008, 1:10 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 95 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2008, 1:10 PM MDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2008, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Baca County, CO, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1216 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.6
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 5, 1:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Kiowa, Las Animas, Prowers | 9 hr |
| May 5, 5:43 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 7 more | 62 min |
| May 5, 12:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 8 hr |
| May 5, 12:07 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Deaf Smith, Gaines and 12 more | 53 min |
| May 5, 1:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crane, Crockett, Culberson, Ector, Glasscock, Hudspeth and 13 more | 116 min |
| May 5, 2:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving and 6 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.