Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2006
Mesoscale Discussion 200
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 8, 2006, 11:02 PM CST for 38 counties in Texas. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2006, 11:02 PM CST (05:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2006, 12:30 AM CST
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, Coryell County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Llano County, TX, McLennan County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Medina County, TX, Milam County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Washington County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:02 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 721 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -606 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1229 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 8:22 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Cooke, Denton and 16 more | 53 min |
| Mar 8, 10:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Camp, Clay, Collin and 40 more | 24 min |
| Mar 8, 11:25 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 8, 11:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Camp, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:36 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Cass | 5 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:57 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Collin, Cooke, Delta, Denton, Fannin, Grayson and 3 more | 63 min |
| Mar 9, 5:14 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Hardin, Harrison, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson and 14 more | 91 min |
| Mar 9, 5:48 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Chambers, Cherokee and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 11:05 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Orange | 85 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2006Every mesoscale discussion in 2006
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.