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Mesoscale Discussion 422

April 19, 2016Bryan County, Love County, Oklahoma; 31 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 19, 2016, 11:39 PM CDT for Bryan County, Love County, Oklahoma; 31 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 19, 2016, 11:39 PM CDT (04:39 UTC)
Expired
Apr 20, 2016, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties

Bryan County, OK, Love County, OK, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hood County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:39 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 228 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1336 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 19, 8:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Bell, Blanco, Borden, Bosque and 67 more3 hr
Apr 19, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Cooke, Eastland and 16 more5 hr
Apr 20, 1:37 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Callahan, Coleman, Collin, Comanche, Dallas and 14 more53 min
Apr 20, 2:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCConcho, Crockett, Irion, Kimble, McCulloch, Mason and 6 more2 hr
Apr 20, 4:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth and 27 more2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.