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Mesoscale Discussion 181
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 7, 2016, 11:41 PM CST for 33 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2016, 11:41 PM CST (05:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2016, 1:45 AM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 33 counties
Borden County, TX, Coke County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Martin County, TX, Menard County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 4057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 6:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Comanche, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis and 10 more | 63 min |
| Mar 8, 1:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 48 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Cottle, Dickens and 6 more | 84 min |
| Mar 8, 3:57 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman and 36 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 7:06 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque and 64 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 7:24 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 29 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 8, 9:00 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Bosque, Burleson, Burnet and 35 more | 90 min |
| Mar 8, 10:46 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Houston, Jasper, Liberty and 12 more | 89 min |
| Mar 8, 12:41 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Chambers and 34 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:10 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coke and 32 more | 95 min |
| Mar 8, 3:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bowie, Cass, Chambers, Cherokee and 24 more | 94 min |
| Mar 8, 5:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Sabine, San Augustine and 2 more | 83 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016Every mesoscale discussion in 2016
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.