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Mesoscale Discussion 72

January 28, 201015 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 28, 2010, 9:52 AM CST for 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 83 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 28, 2010, 9:52 AM CST (15:52 UTC)
Expired: Jan 28, 2010, 11:15 AM CST
In force: 83 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Concho County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:56 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 263 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: 179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 369 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 419 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
Jan 28, 12:22 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 24 more	6 hr
Jan 28, 5:05 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett and 25 more	2 hr
Jan 28, 7:01 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 27 more	5 hr
Jan 28, 10:48 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Sherman	5 hr
Jan 28, 1:47 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Edwards, Kimble, Kinney, Maverick, Menard, Real and 4 more	118 min
Jan 28, 2:36 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Collin, Coryell, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 19 more	84 min
Jan 28, 2:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bosque, Coryell, Dallas, Ellis, Hamilton, Hill and 11 more	4 hr
Jan 28, 3:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Concho, Edwards, Gillespie and 14 more	7 hr
Jan 28, 5:06 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coryell, Ellis, Falls, Hamilton, Hill, Kaufman and 6 more	114 min

Nearby

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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.