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Mesoscale Discussion 932
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 14, 2008, 10:02 PM CDT for 82 counties in Texas. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2008, 10:02 PM CDT (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2008, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 82 counties
Austin County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comal County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hays County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Madison County, TX, Mason County, TX, Maverick County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Medina County, TX, Menard County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Real County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Webb County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:03 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 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 924 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2159 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Brown, Burnet and 30 more | 54 min |
| May 14, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bastrop, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 14, 7:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata | 67 min |
| May 14, 11:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Henderson, Houston and 9 more | 65 min |
| May 15, 1:16 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Bowie, Brazos, Burleson, Camp, Cass and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 2:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson, Orange | 94 min |
| May 15, 4:16 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jefferson, Orange | 7 hr |
| May 15, 6:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dimmit, Maverick | 66 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.