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Mesoscale Discussion 343

March 30, 201314 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 30, 2013, 5:15 PM CDT for 14 counties in Texas. It was in force for 90 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2013, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2013, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 90 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

Counties Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Jack County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 68Mar 30, 6:10 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 343 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: -317 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 286 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 508 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.7

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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
Mar 29, 7:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baylor, Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Childress, Coke and 41 more	89 min
Mar 29, 9:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Delta and 16 more	96 min
Mar 29, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Denton, Fannin and 6 more	5 hr
Mar 30, 1:21 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson and 8 more	114 min
Mar 30, 10:24 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Delta, Franklin, Lamar, Morris, Red River and 1 more	96 min
Mar 30, 2:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta, Franklin and 17 more	84 min
Mar 30, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 11 more	3 hr
Mar 30, 4:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Foard, Hall, Hardeman	97 min
Mar 30, 5:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 7 more	53 min
Mar 30, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clay, Collin, Cooke, Denton, Fannin, Grayson and 5 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.