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Mesoscale Discussion 362
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 6, 2008, 5:00 PM CST for 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 2008, 5:00 PM CST (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Aransas County, TX, Austin County, TX, Bee County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Colorado County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Harris County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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 nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 719 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 9:59 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 24 more | 61 min |
| Mar 6, 10:38 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Hood, Jack and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 6, 12:09 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aransas, Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 6, 2:00 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado and 19 more | 90 min |
| Mar 6, 5:16 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Delta, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, Lamar | 6 hr |
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.