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Mesoscale Discussion 2192
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 24, 2023, 3:03 PM CDT for 35 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 24, 2023, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2023, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch possible
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 35 counties
Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Collin County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 1417 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1404 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bowie, Red River | 9 hr |
| Sep 24, 1:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Cass, Franklin, Lamar, Morris, Red River and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 24, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet and 49 more | 8 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.