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Mesoscale Discussion 343

April 11, 202018 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 11, 2020, 11:03 PM CDT for 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 11, 2020, 11:03 PM CDT (04:03 UTC)
Expired: Apr 12, 2020, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

Tornado Watch 104Apr 12, 2:00 AM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 3028 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1174 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 286 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.8
Supercell composite: 23.5

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 11, 7:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Edwards, Kinney, Real, Sutton, Uvalde, Val Verde	84 min
Apr 11, 8:37 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 23 more	5 hr
Apr 11, 9:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Coke, Coleman and 23 more	67 min
Apr 12, 1:37 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brazos, Brown and 44 more	113 min
Apr 12, 1:59 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque and 37 more	6 hr
Apr 12, 4:15 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 24 more	90 min
Apr 12, 5:52 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, Freestone and 19 more	8 hr
Apr 12, 7:18 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Falls, Freestone and 20 more	87 min
Apr 12, 9:30 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	San Augustine, Shelby	90 min
Apr 12, 1:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Camp, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 17 more	95 min
Apr 12, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Fannin, Franklin and 11 more	5 hr
Apr 12, 6:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 8 more	91 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.