Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2012
Mesoscale Discussion 1993
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 26, 2012, 2:55 PM CDT for 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 26, 2012, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2012, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 24 counties
Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2223 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 25, 9:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 87 min |
| Sep 26, 1:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Dallam and 14 more | 55 min |
| Sep 26, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cottle, Crosby and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 26, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more | 7 hr |
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.