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Mesoscale Discussion 492

April 29, 2016Harmon County, Oklahoma; 34 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 29, 2016, 4:54 AM CDT for Harmon County, Oklahoma; 34 counties in Texas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 2016, 4:54 AM CDT (09:54 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 2016, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties

Harmon County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 89 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 699 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 290 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
699 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
290 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
462 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.7
Supercell composite
12.4

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 10:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeaver, Cimarron, Texas7 hr
Apr 29, 1:58 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 14 more2 hr
Apr 29, 2:59 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaver, Ellis, Harper91 min
Apr 29, 4:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCHaskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg and 2 more6 hr
Apr 29, 12:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCMcCurtain114 min
Apr 29, 1:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche and 15 more65 min
Apr 29, 1:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain8 hr
Apr 29, 1:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw and 27 more8 hr
Apr 29, 3:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 18 more64 min
Apr 29, 5:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCMcCurtain93 min
Apr 29, 6:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 25 more89 min
Apr 28, 7:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet, Coryell, Falls and 7 more83 min
Apr 28, 10:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 30 more89 min
Apr 29, 7:38 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBriscoe, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Foard and 10 more97 min
Apr 29, 9:46 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBowie, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Morris89 min
Apr 29, 12:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Comanche and 22 more113 min
Apr 29, 1:08 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 35 more9 hr
Apr 29, 3:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Bosque, Collin, Cooke, Coryell, Dallas and 31 more86 min

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.