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Mesoscale Discussion 364

April 11, 201614 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 11, 2016, 1:43 PM CDT for 14 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 11, 2016, 1:43 PM CDT (18:43 UTC)
Expired: Apr 11, 2016, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 40%

Counties Austin County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harris County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Madison County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Polk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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

Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 285 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: 520 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 270 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 389 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.2

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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 10, 11:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Dimmit, Frio and 9 more	54 min
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, 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.