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Mesoscale Discussion 1897

December 31, 202010 parishes in Louisiana; Newton County, Orange County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 31, 2020, 2:44 PM CST for 10 parishes in Louisiana; Newton County, Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Dec 31, 2020, 2:44 PM CST (20:44 UTC)
Expired: Dec 31, 2020, 4:45 PM CST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Tornado watch 520...521

Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Allen Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 38 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 238 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 31, 7:10 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calcasieu	95 min
Dec 31, 11:21 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cameron	114 min
Dec 31, 1:27 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 10 more	8 hr
Dec 31, 3:30 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 13 more	2 hr
Dec 30, 8:15 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brewster, Crane, Pecos, Presidio, Upton	6 hr
Dec 31, 2:16 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brewster, Crane, Glasscock, Pecos, Reagan, Sterling and 2 more	6 hr
Dec 31, 7:40 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 7 more	7 hr
Dec 31, 9:09 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Borden, Callahan, Childress, Clay and 39 more	6 hr
Dec 31, 2:59 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baylor, Callahan, Coke, Cottle, Fisher, Foard and 16 more	4 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Louisiana, 2020 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2020 Every mesoscale discussion in 2020

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.