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Mesoscale Discussion 610

May 9, 2013Beauregard Parish, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana; 18 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 9, 2013, 2:52 PM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana; 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 2013, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2013, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 80%

Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Angelina County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Houston County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Madison County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Polk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Walker County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 151May 9, 3:35 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 879 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -201 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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
May 9, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, De Soto, Sabine, Vernon	6 hr
May 9, 6:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beauregard, De Soto, Sabine, Vernon	2 hr
May 9, 6:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 13 more	3 hr
May 9, 9:37 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coleman, Comanche and 15 more	113 min
May 9, 11:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 44 more	9 hr
May 9, 3:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 42 more	56 min
May 9, 5:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Donley and 4 more	67 min
May 9, 6:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Brown and 47 more	63 min

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.