Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 732
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 25, 2008, 4:50 PM CDT for 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 2008, 4:50 PM CDT (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2008, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Bandera County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Falls County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hays County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Real County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 2587 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camp, Delta, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin, Hopkins and 9 more | 90 min |
| Apr 25, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Falls, Franklin and 17 more | 55 min |
| Apr 25, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 18 more | 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.