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Mesoscale Discussion 365

March 30, 200614 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 30, 2006, 1:36 PM CST for 14 counties in Texas. It was in force for 114 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2006, 1:36 PM CST (19:36 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2006, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 114 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Archer County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Denton County, TX, Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 1309 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 346 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 425 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 13.7

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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
Mar 29, 11:16 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson, Childress and 33 more	119 min
Mar 30, 2:58 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	2 hr
Mar 30, 5:10 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cooke, Delta, Fannin, Grayson, Lamar	2 hr
Mar 30, 5:39 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clay, Collin, Cooke, Delta, Denton, Fannin and 8 more	6 hr

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.