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Mesoscale Discussion 183
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 14, 2004, 3:23 PM CST for 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2004, 3:23 PM CST (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2004, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Bandera County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Comal County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Medina County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Real County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 672 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 3:35 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bee, Brooks, Duval, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kenedy and 8 more | 55 min |
| Mar 14, 12:07 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Brooks, Comal and 41 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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.