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Mesoscale Discussion 584
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 10, 2016, 1:56 PM CDT for 51 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2016, 1:56 PM CDT (18:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 51 counties
Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Real County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Wise County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 2081 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 399 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 391 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 8 more | 8 hr |
| May 9, 8:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Cass, Lamar, Morris, Red River, Titus | 89 min |
| May 9, 11:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Cass, Morris, Titus | 90 min |
| May 10, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 63 more | 7 hr |
| May 10, 6:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 61 more | 96 min |
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.