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Mesoscale Discussion 357

April 10, 201615 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 10, 2016, 11:06 PM CDT for 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 2016, 11:06 PM CDT (04:06 UTC)
Expired: Apr 11, 2016, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Comal County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Frio County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, La Salle County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 1740 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.5

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 7:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Montague	114 min
Apr 10, 8:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dimmit, Edwards, Kinney, Maverick, Real, Uvalde and 2 more	66 min
Apr 10, 9:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Cooke, Cottle and 19 more	59 min
Apr 10, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Foard, Hardeman and 4 more	6 hr
Apr 11, 6:15 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Collin, Cooke, Delta, Denton, Fannin and 7 more	3 hr
Apr 11, 11:48 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Cass, Marion	2 hr
Apr 11, 12:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Camp, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 33 more	2 hr
Apr 11, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Jasper, Newton, Sabine	6 hr
Apr 11, 1:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee and 46 more	9 hr
Apr 11, 1:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Brazos, Grimes, Hardin, Harris, Liberty and 8 more	3 hr
Apr 11, 3:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 18 more	94 min
Apr 11, 3:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Newton, Sabine	93 min
Apr 11, 4:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Collin, Dallas, Denton, Hunt, Rains, Rockwall and 1 more	86 min
Apr 11, 5:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Fisher, Haskell, Jones, King and 7 more	93 min
Apr 11, 6:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Newton, Sabine	66 min
Apr 11, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Shelby	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016 Every 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.