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Mesoscale Discussion 288

April 12, 201518 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 12, 2015, 8:59 PM CDT for 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 91 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 12, 2015, 8:59 PM CDT (01:59 UTC)
Expired: Apr 12, 2015, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 91 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Brooks County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Duval County, TX, Frio County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, La Salle County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Starr County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Webb County, TX, Zapata County, TX, Zavala County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 1276 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1235 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
Apr 12, 8:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baylor, Childress, Cottle, Dickens, Foard, Hall and 5 more	97 min
Apr 13, 2:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Coke, Coleman, Mitchell, Nolan, Runnels	117 min
Apr 13, 3:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brooks, Duval, Jim Hogg, Zapata	2 hr
Apr 13, 5:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bosque, Brown, Coke, Coleman, Comanche and 9 more	119 min
Apr 13, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke and 22 more	4 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2015 Every mesoscale discussion in 2015

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.