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Mesoscale Discussion 2116

October 15, 200615 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 15, 2006, 3:02 PM CDT for 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 88 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 15, 2006, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: Oct 15, 2006, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 88 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Andrews County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Ector County, TX, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 216 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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.

Tornado Watch 826Oct 15, 3:55 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 288 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
Oct 15, 5:05 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	El Paso, Hudspeth	85 min
Oct 15, 9:45 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Culberson, Dawson and 14 more	60 min
Oct 15, 10:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bailey, Briscoe, Childress, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby and 21 more	8 hr
Oct 15, 3:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Culberson and 21 more	6 hr
Oct 15, 6:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Midland, Pecos, Reagan and 2 more	63 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2006 Every 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.