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Mesoscale Discussion 3

January 8, 201319 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 8, 2013, 3:53 PM CST for 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 8, 2013, 3:53 PM CST (21:53 UTC)
Expired: Jan 8, 2013, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 40%

Counties Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Maverick County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Starr County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Webb County, TX, Zapata County, TX, Zavala County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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 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 8, 7:02 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chambers, Galveston	88 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.