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Mesoscale Discussion 36
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 24, 2014, 3:27 AM CST for Beauregard Parish, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana; 42 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 24, 2014, 3:27 AM CST (09:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2014, 9:30 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Aransas County, TX, Atascosa County, TX, Austin County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bee County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Colorado County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harris County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Orange County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Travis County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:29 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 420 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 10:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazos, Chambers, Fort Bend, Grimes, Hardin and 9 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Louisiana, 2014Every mesoscale discussion in 2014
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.