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Mesoscale Discussion 595
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 10, 2016, 9:43 PM CDT for 5 counties in Oklahoma; 67 counties in Texas. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2016, 9:43 PM CDT (02:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2016, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 72 counties
Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Bandera County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, 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, Crockett County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Menard County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Real County, TX, Robertson 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, Travis County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wise County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 3748 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1415 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 21.4
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 11, 3:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 119 min |
| May 11, 2:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Denton and 21 more | 88 min |
| May 11, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Denton, Eastland and 20 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 6:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hartley and 7 more | 3 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.