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Mesoscale Discussion 1113

June 1, 202412 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2024, 3:00 PM CDT for 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 90 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2024, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2024, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 90 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...watch possible
Chance of a watch: 40%

Counties Anderson County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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 watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 367Jun 1, 3:35 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 347 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: 2390 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 853 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 5.5

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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
May 31, 7:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Edwards and 12 more	2 hr
May 31, 8:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Borden, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson and 14 more	2 hr
May 31, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby and 22 more	5 hr
May 31, 11:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Briscoe, Childress, Coke, Cottle and 29 more	2 hr
Jun 1, 9:02 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Fort Bend and 11 more	118 min
Jun 1, 10:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend and 14 more	115 min
Jun 1, 11:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aransas, Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado and 20 more	10 hr
Jun 1, 12:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Camp, Collin, Dallas, Franklin, Hopkins, Hunt and 5 more	114 min
Jun 1, 1:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hardin, Harris, Jasper, Liberty, Montgomery, Newton and 4 more	118 min
Jun 1, 1:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dallam	114 min
Jun 1, 1:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Brewster, Cochran, Crane, Culberson, Ector and 13 more	87 min
Jun 1, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dallam, Hartley	6 hr
Jun 1, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson and 10 more	5 hr
Jun 1, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving, Pecos and 5 more	6 hr
Jun 1, 5:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk and 4 more	94 min
Jun 1, 6:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brewster, Crane, Ector, Loving, Pecos, Reeves and 4 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2024 Every mesoscale discussion in 2024

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.