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Mesoscale Discussion 972
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 12, 2014, 2:19 PM CDT for 55 counties in Texas. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2014, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2014, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 55 counties
Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comal County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hays County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Irion County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lee County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Menard County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 1455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -391 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2118 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 8:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Haskell, Jones, Nolan, Runnels, Shackelford and 2 more | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 8:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Ellis and 30 more | 54 min |
| Jun 12, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque and 59 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 36 more | 90 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.