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Mesoscale Discussion 794
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 30, 2016, 5:49 PM CDT for 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2016, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2016, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 21 counties
Borden County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jones County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mills County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Taylor County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 931 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -299 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 796 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
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 29, 7:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 22 more | 85 min |
| May 29, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 35 more | 9 hr |
| May 29, 9:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 28 more | 2 hr |
| May 29, 11:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 18 more | 83 min |
| May 30, 9:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson, Lavaca, Victoria | 64 min |
| May 30, 2:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Culberson, Ector and 12 more | 2 hr |
| May 30, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Dawson and 15 more | 5 hr |
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.