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Mesoscale Discussion 202
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 19, 2020, 3:33 AM CDT for 30 counties in Texas. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2020, 3:33 AM CDT (08:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2020, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Bandera County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Jack County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:36 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 487 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 8:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Coke, Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Irion and 18 more | 60 min |
| Mar 18, 9:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cooke, Grayson, Wise | 56 min |
| Mar 18, 11:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 34 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 1:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 2:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Shackelford, Stephens | 67 min |
| Mar 19, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Bowie, Camp, Collin, Dallas, Delta and 26 more | 62 min |
| Mar 19, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Delta, Fannin and 18 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 19, 6:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, Freestone, Hamilton and 9 more | 54 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2020Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.