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Mesoscale Discussion 399
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 16, 2016, 7:42 PM CDT for 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 93 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2016, 7:42 PM CDT (00:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2016, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Borden County, TX, Coke County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 3416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 8:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 16 more | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 10:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 20 more | 92 min |
| Apr 16, 10:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 117 min |
| Apr 16, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 17, 1:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 58 min |
| Apr 17, 2:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Eastland and 17 more | 59 min |
| Apr 17, 7:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Burnet, Coryell, Falls, Hamilton and 3 more | 87 min |
| Apr 17, 2:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal and 8 more | 88 min |
| Apr 17, 5:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Frio, Gillespie, Kendall and 1 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.