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Mesoscale Discussion 2303

November 8, 201116 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 8, 2011, 1:44 PM CST for 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 8, 2011, 1:44 PM CST (19:44 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2011, 2:45 PM CST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Austin County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harris County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Polk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 403 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 438 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 7, 6:44 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bosque, Camp, Collin, Cooke, Coryell, Dallas and 24 more	2 hr
Nov 7, 7:43 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Haskell, Knox and 3 more	62 min
Nov 7, 8:28 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more	8 hr
Nov 7, 8:53 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Coke, Fisher, Glasscock, Haskell, Howard and 9 more	2 hr
Nov 7, 9:16 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crane and 31 more	8 hr
Nov 7, 11:20 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Knox, Wichita	85 min
Nov 8, 2:12 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman and 28 more	93 min
Nov 8, 10:31 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 12 more	29 min
Nov 8, 10:49 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee and 30 more	7 hr
Nov 8, 1:03 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee and 24 more	57 min
Nov 8, 1:59 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Chambers, Grimes, Hardin, Harris, Houston, Jasper and 12 more	6 hr
Nov 8, 3:48 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Gregg and 11 more	87 min
Nov 8, 3:53 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Grimes, Hardin, Harris, Jasper, Liberty and 7 more	2 hr
Nov 8, 5:09 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Orange, Sabine, San Augustine and 2 more	66 min
Nov 8, 5:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Nacogdoches, Newton and 6 more	7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2011 Every mesoscale discussion in 2011

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.