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Mesoscale Discussion 1135

June 13, 200712 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 13, 2007, 4:02 PM CDT for 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2007, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2007, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Knox County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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: 593 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1254 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
Jun 13, 12:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Collingsworth, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler	2 hr
Jun 13, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Collingsworth, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler	8 hr
Jun 13, 5:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Collingsworth, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2007 Every mesoscale discussion in 2007

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.