Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2006
Mesoscale Discussion 299
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 17, 2006, 9:19 AM CST for 35 counties in Texas. It was in force for 86 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2006, 9:19 AM CST (15:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2006, 10:45 AM CST
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Borden County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hood County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mills County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:21 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 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2263 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 448 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 587 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 7:46 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 29 more | 59 min |
| Mar 17, 1:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Kinney, Pecos, Terrell, Val Verde | 96 min |
| Mar 17, 3:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Reagan and 4 more | 6 hr |
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.