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Mesoscale Discussion 585
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 12, 2014, 2:38 PM CDT for 23 counties in Texas. It was in force for 97 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2014, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2014, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 97 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 23 counties
Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Comal County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, Maverick County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Webb County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 3591 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baylor, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Dickens, Foard and 9 more | 54 min |
| May 11, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 11, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Foard, Hardeman, Knox | 6 hr |
| May 11, 11:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, Hall, Hemphill and 1 more | 64 min |
| May 12, 11:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell and 16 more | 83 min |
| May 12, 6:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burnet, Coryell, Gillespie, Kerr, Kimble, Lampasas and 4 more | 97 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.