Alert archive / Texas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2016
Mesoscale Discussion 782
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 29, 2016, 5:21 PM CDT for 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2016, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hall County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 10:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Bandera, Baylor, Bexar, Blanco, Borden and 57 more | 60 min |
| May 29, 7:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hansford, Hemphill and 5 more | 2 hr |
| May 29, 12:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Cochran and 19 more | 117 min |
| May 29, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Armstrong, Bailey, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson and 45 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 2:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett and 27 more | 2 hr |
| May 29, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Culberson and 22 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 4:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Henderson, Hood and 14 more | 94 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.