Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2006
Mesoscale Discussion 402
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 2, 2006, 11:03 AM CDT for 37 counties in Texas. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2006, 11:03 AM CDT (16:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2006, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Houston County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Marion County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Morris County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rusk County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:07 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 825 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1367 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 7:53 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Concho, Crockett, Irion, Runnels, Schleicher, Tom Green | 97 min |
| Apr 2, 11:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Camp, Cass, Cherokee and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Cherokee, Falls, Freestone, Gregg, Harrison and 11 more | 88 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.