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Mesoscale Discussion 893

May 23, 20228 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 23, 2022, 8:32 PM CDT for 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2022, 8:32 PM CDT (01:32 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2022, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 118 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe thunderstorm watch 266

Counties Brooks County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Duval County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Webb County, TX, Zapata County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 1543 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 915 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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
May 23, 7:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hale and 9 more	85 min
May 23, 9:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Castro, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Hale and 7 more	67 min
May 23, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 15 more	6 hr
May 23, 10:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Starr, Willacy	2 hr
May 24, 2:18 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 5 more	117 min
May 24, 9:48 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Harris, Jefferson and 2 more	87 min
May 24, 12:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Cochran, Dawson, Gaines, Garza and 11 more	91 min
May 24, 1:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 43 more	93 min
May 24, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Cochran, Crane, Crosby, Dawson and 23 more	7 hr
May 24, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke and 52 more	7 hr
May 24, 4:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Cochran, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 14 more	94 min
May 24, 4:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Coleman, Collin, Comanche, Concho and 41 more	116 min
May 24, 5:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dimmit, Kinney, Maverick, Zavala	2 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.