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Mesoscale Discussion 148
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 5, 2008, 2:00 AM CST for 46 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2008, 2:00 AM CST (08:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2008, 4:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Bandera County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 243 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 799 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1287 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 5:03 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 17 more | 117 min |
| Feb 5, 11:16 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 14 more | 89 min |
| Feb 5, 11:56 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Fannin, Franklin and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Dallas and 23 more | 90 min |
| Feb 5, 3:17 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Lamar, Rains and 2 more | 88 min |
| Feb 5, 3:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Leon and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 5:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 14 more | 96 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2008Every 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.