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Mesoscale Discussion 2102

August 16, 200814 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 16, 2008, 3:37 AM CDT for 14 counties in Texas. It was in force for 23 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 16, 2008, 3:37 AM CDT (08:37 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2008, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:38 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 nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 70 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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
Aug 15, 10:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham	57 min
Aug 15, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more	4 hr
Aug 16, 2:14 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 17 more	61 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.