Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 1882
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 23, 2008, 5:38 PM CDT for 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 97 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2008, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2008, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 97 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Aransas County, TX, Atascosa County, TX, Bee County, TX, Brooks County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Duval County, TX, Frio County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Webb County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Kleberg, Nueces and 1 more | 11 hr |
| Jul 23, 6:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Matagorda, Willacy | 94 min |
| Jul 23, 9:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Calhoun, Cameron, Goliad and 12 more | 60 min |
| Jul 23, 9:39 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Brazoria, Brooks, Calhoun, Cameron and 20 more | 113 min |
| Jul 23, 11:27 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Calhoun, Cameron, DeWitt and 19 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 23, 1:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Calhoun, Cameron, DeWitt and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Calhoun, DeWitt, Duval and 14 more | 113 min |
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.