Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2006
Mesoscale Discussion 2121
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 16, 2006, 3:50 AM CDT for 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 16, 2006, 3:50 AM CDT (08:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2006, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Bandera County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Frio County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 382 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
- 787 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 10:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado and 20 more | 63 min |
| Oct 15, 11:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 16, 3:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fayette and 23 more | 95 min |
| Oct 16, 5:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fayette and 18 more | 88 min |
| Oct 16, 5:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 16, 7:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Nacogdoches, Panola, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby | 84 min |
| Oct 16, 10:37 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston and 16 more | 9 hr |
| Oct 16, 12:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin and 11 more | 96 min |
| Oct 16, 3:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Harris, Jasper and 6 more | 83 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.