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Mesoscale Discussion 120
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 22, 2016, 11:46 PM CST for 37 counties in Texas. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2016, 11:46 PM CST (05:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2016, 1:15 AM CST
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bee County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Maverick County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Refugio County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Wharton County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:46 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 6:24 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crane, Crockett, Edwards, Irion, Kimble, Kinney and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 22, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar and 40 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 23, 2:54 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, Brazoria, Calhoun and 19 more | 96 min |
| Feb 23, 8:00 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chambers, Galveston, Jefferson, Orange | 60 min |
| Feb 23, 12:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chambers, Hardin, Harris, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty and 4 more | 2 hr |
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.