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Mesoscale Discussion 183

February 21, 20139 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 21, 2013, 3:19 AM CST for 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 86 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 21, 2013, 3:19 AM CST (09:19 UTC)
Expired: Feb 21, 2013, 4:45 AM CST
In force: 86 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 40%

Counties Concho County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Sutton County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:23 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 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 294 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: 21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 860 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 103 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 451 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 459 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 20, 10:52 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Childress, Clay and 30 more	113 min
Feb 20, 11:49 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, Wheeler	6 hr
Feb 21, 5:08 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Comanche, Cooke and 16 more	97 min
Feb 21, 7:22 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Falls, Freestone, Grimes and 13 more	83 min
Feb 21, 10:53 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Chambers, Hardin, Harris, Jasper, Jefferson and 6 more	97 min
Feb 21, 1:37 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Orange, Sabine, Tyler	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2013 Every mesoscale discussion in 2013

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.