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Mesoscale Discussion 2332

October 9, 200523 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 9, 2005, 11:07 PM CDT for 23 counties in Texas. It was in force for 83 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 9, 2005, 11:07 PM CDT (04:07 UTC)
Expired: Oct 10, 2005, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 83 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 23 counties

Bandera County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Brown County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, Maverick County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Medina County, TX, Menard County, TX, Real County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Zavala County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -325 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2092 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
Oct 9, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Crockett and 18 more	8 hr
Oct 9, 8:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Edwards and 16 more	84 min
Oct 10, 7:55 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda, Wharton	65 min
Oct 10, 2:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby and 14 more	115 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2005 Every 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.