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Mesoscale Discussion 700

May 14, 20047 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 14, 2004, 2:14 AM CDT for 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 91 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 2004, 2:14 AM CDT (07:14 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2004, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 91 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Brooks County, TX, Cameron County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Starr County, TX, Willacy County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 3220 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 6.1

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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
May 13, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aransas, Bee, Dimmit, Duval, Frio, Jim Wells and 9 more	5 hr
May 13, 9:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr, Kimble, Mason and 5 more	96 min
May 13, 9:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Bee, Dimmit, Duval, Frio, Jim Wells and 9 more	93 min
May 13, 10:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more	92 min
May 13, 11:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Bandera, Bee, Brooks, Cameron, Dimmit and 27 more	58 min
May 13, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Kleberg, Starr and 1 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.