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Mesoscale Discussion 2291
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 28, 2005, 5:45 PM CDT for Little River County, Arkansas; 42 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 28, 2005, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 2005, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Little River County, AR, Anderson County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Collin County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Marion County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Morris County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Smith County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 1121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1141 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 2:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 12 more | 61 min |
| Sep 28, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 28, 4:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Cross, Faulkner and 20 more | 84 min |
| Sep 28, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Faulkner and 23 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2005Every mesoscale discussion in 2005
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.