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Mesoscale Discussion 116

January 31, 2008Cameron Parish, Louisiana; 5 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 31, 2008, 9:57 AM CST for Cameron Parish, Louisiana; 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 31, 2008, 9:57 AM CST (15:57 UTC)
Expired: Jan 31, 2008, 12:00 PM CST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Cameron Parish, LA, Brazoria County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Orange County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 495 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 570 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 707 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.3

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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
Jan 30, 11:47 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Sabine	2 hr
Jan 31, 5:23 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron	3 hr
Jan 31, 5:51 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 10 more	7 hr
Jan 31, 12:06 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson and 15 more	54 min
Jan 31, 12:35 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville and 22 more	6 hr
Jan 31, 3:25 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ascension, Assumption, Livingston, Orleans, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles and 5 more	95 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2008 Mesoscale Discussions in Louisiana, 2008 Every mesoscale discussion in 2008

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.