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Mesoscale Discussion 875

May 26, 2009Bryan County, Love County, Marshall County, Oklahoma; 48 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 26, 2009, 7:19 PM CDT for Bryan County, Love County, Marshall County, Oklahoma; 48 counties in Texas. It was in force for 86 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 2009, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2009, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
86 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 51 counties

Bryan County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2009-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1667 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2009-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1667 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2295 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 10:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Love67 min
May 26, 8:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDimmit, Duval, Edwards, Jim Wells, Kinney, Maverick and 6 more2 hr
May 27, 8:38 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAransas, Atascosa, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Dimmit and 13 more97 min
May 27, 3:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrooks, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg and 11 more64 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2009Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2009Every mesoscale discussion in 2009

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.