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Mesoscale Discussion 1543

July 22, 2012Lea County, New Mexico; 106 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 22, 2012, 2:14 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico; 106 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 2012, 2:14 PM MDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2012, 4:45 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
5%
All 107 counties

Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Austin County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Borden County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Comal County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ector County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harris County, TX, Hays County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Houston County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Loving County, TX, Madison County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Menard County, TX, Midland County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Polk County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terry County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Travis County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Upton County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Ward County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 244 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 12:00Z on 2012-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 905 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 12:00Z on 2012-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
905 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-257 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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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
Jul 21, 9:19 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAustin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 17 more56 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2012Every mesoscale discussion in 2012

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.