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Mesoscale Discussion 378

March 30, 200726 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 30, 2007, 12:00 PM CDT for 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2007, 12:00 PM CDT (17:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2007, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 26 counties

Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 905 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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, 7:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Camp, Cherokee, Franklin, Freestone, Gregg and 9 more	88 min
Mar 29, 10:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 23 more	119 min
Mar 30, 4:44 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Bandera, Crane, Crockett, Dimmit, Ector and 20 more	2 hr
Mar 30, 6:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 40 more	6 hr
Mar 30, 9:31 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 55 more	59 min
Mar 30, 9:51 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Archer, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 48 more	8 hr
Mar 30, 11:47 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Coke, Crockett, Edwards, Fisher, Irion, Jones and 12 more	6 hr
Mar 30, 2:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coryell, McLennan	92 min
Mar 30, 3:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Clay, Coleman, Collin, Comanche and 34 more	89 min
Mar 30, 4:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 67 more	54 min
Mar 30, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque and 65 more	8 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.