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Mesoscale Discussion 775

May 6, 200617 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 6, 2006, 12:11 PM CDT for 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2006, 12:11 PM CDT (17:11 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2006, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Bandera County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Real County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sutton County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:11 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 301May 6, 2:30 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 2431 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 6.7

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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
May 5, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Clay, Comanche, Coryell and 17 more	6 hr
May 5, 7:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Edwards and 15 more	2 hr
May 5, 9:24 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 39 more	8 hr
May 5, 11:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 44 more	90 min
May 5, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Fayette, Gillespie, Lee and 3 more	5 hr
May 6, 1:28 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 17 more	7 hr
May 6, 2:31 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bastrop, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell, Comal and 15 more	89 min
May 6, 6:48 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange and 1 more	57 min
May 6, 2:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more	119 min
May 6, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Edwards and 16 more	6 hr
May 6, 5:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble and 3 more	85 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.