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Mesoscale Discussion 862

May 14, 200617 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 14, 2006, 11:05 AM CDT for 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 2006, 11:05 AM CDT (16:05 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2006, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Bell County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Hays County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, Milam County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Travis County, TX, Walker County, TX, Williamson County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:05 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 Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 610 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -393 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1168 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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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 13, 9:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas and 20 more	83 min
May 13, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Clay, Collin and 39 more	8 hr
May 13, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Shelby	6 hr
May 14, 2:27 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Collin, Cooke and 33 more	93 min
May 14, 5:23 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 26 more	67 min
May 14, 5:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Brazos, Camp, Cass, Cherokee and 34 more	7 hr
May 14, 9:04 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco and 47 more	86 min
May 14, 9:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar and 55 more	7 hr
May 14, 12:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Brazoria and 37 more	2 hr
May 14, 3:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco and 47 more	53 min
May 14, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aransas, Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee and 55 more	7 hr
May 14, 6:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Brooks and 36 more	83 min
May 14, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brooks, Cameron, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells and 8 more	6 hr

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.