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Mesoscale Discussion 596

April 28, 202512 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 28, 2025, 11:33 PM CDT for 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2025, 11:33 PM CDT (04:33 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2025, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...watch possible
Chance of a watch: 40%

Counties Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:35 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3248 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 28, 7:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baylor, Foard, Haskell, Jones, Knox, Shackelford and 3 more	92 min
Apr 29, 12:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hemphill	115 min
Apr 29, 2:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler	7 hr
Apr 29, 3:06 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 3 more	114 min
Apr 29, 1:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Borden, Clay, Crosby, Dawson and 22 more	2 hr
Apr 29, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baylor, Borden, Childress, Coke, Cottle, Crane and 36 more	9 hr
Apr 29, 3:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dickens, Foard, Garza, Kent, King, Knox and 1 more	95 min
Apr 29, 5:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Haskell and 7 more	95 min
Apr 29, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Fisher, Grayson and 11 more	7 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.