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Mesoscale Discussion 262

April 4, 200413 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 4, 2004, 12:41 PM CDT for 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 4, 2004, 12:41 PM CDT (17:41 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2004, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Atascosa County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Medina County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 41Apr 4, 1:10 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 180 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1090 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 4, 4:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crane, Crockett, Culberson, Ector, Jeff Davis, Kinney and 8 more	3 hr
Apr 4, 11:38 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brooks, Cameron, Dimmit, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg and 9 more	3 hr
Apr 4, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Dimmit, Duval, Frio, Jim Wells, Karnes and 8 more	6 hr
Apr 4, 1:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brewster, Terrell, Val Verde	2 hr
Apr 4, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brewster, Presidio, Terrell	6 hr
Apr 4, 3:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Duval, Jim Wells, Karnes, La Salle, Live Oak and 3 more	2 hr
Apr 4, 5:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Burleson and 19 more	118 min
Apr 4, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Brooks, Duval, Goliad and 15 more	4 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2004 Every mesoscale discussion in 2004

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.