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Mesoscale Discussion 200

March 19, 2020Shackelford County, Stephens County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 19, 2020, 2:08 AM CDT for Shackelford County, Stephens County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 19, 2020, 2:08 AM CDT (07:08 UTC)
Expired
Mar 19, 2020, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 169 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2020-03-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1265 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2020-03-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 198 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.9
Supercell composite
11.8

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
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Mar 18, 11:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 34 more5 hr
Mar 19, 1:28 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 23 more2 hr
Mar 19, 3:33 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBandera, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 24 more117 min
Mar 19, 1:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBosque, Bowie, Camp, Collin, Dallas, Delta and 26 more62 min
Mar 19, 2:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Delta, Fannin and 18 more8 hr
Mar 19, 6:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, Freestone, Hamilton and 9 more54 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.