Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2006
Mesoscale Discussion 324
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 19, 2006, 11:37 PM CST for 34 counties in Texas. It was in force for 83 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2006, 11:37 PM CST (05:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2006, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Atascosa County, TX, Austin County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Medina County, TX, Milam County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Travis County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:40 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 2116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.6
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 19, 6:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Crane, Deaf Smith and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 8:34 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar and 39 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 8:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baylor, Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Childress, Coke and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 10:32 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Brazos and 28 more | 118 min |
| Mar 20, 1:26 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Aransas, Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee and 59 more | 64 min |
| Mar 20, 2:08 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baylor, Callahan, Childress, Coke, Coleman, Cottle and 17 more | 67 min |
| Mar 20, 3:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers and 27 more | 24 min |
| Mar 20, 4:21 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Montgomery, Newton and 7 more | 24 min |
| Mar 20, 4:44 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 5 hr |
| Mar 20, 6:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jasper, Newton, Sabine, San Augustine | 54 min |
| Mar 20, 9:20 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Newton, Polk, Sabine and 1 more | 85 min |
| Mar 20, 12:47 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Hardeman, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger | 88 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.