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Mesoscale Discussion 1016

May 26, 200531 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 26, 2005, 3:17 AM CDT for 31 counties in Texas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2005, 3:17 AM CDT (08:17 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2005, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 31 counties

Brown County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Irion County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 2438 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2457 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.3

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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
May 25, 7:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Glasscock, Irion and 9 more	86 min
May 25, 8:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brazos, Burleson, Ellis, Erath, Falls and 15 more	91 min
May 25, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche and 27 more	7 hr
May 25, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock, Martin and 2 more	5 hr
May 25, 11:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 31 more	89 min
May 26, 2:48 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock, Martin and 1 more	57 min
May 26, 7:45 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crockett, Edwards, Kimble, Kinney, Real, Schleicher and 4 more	90 min
May 26, 8:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio and 14 more	5 hr
May 26, 11:35 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Kinney, Maverick	85 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.