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Mesoscale Discussion 71
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 13, 2026, 6:28 PM CST for 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 13, 2026, 6:28 PM CST (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2026, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch unlikely
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 21 counties
Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 531 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 10:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crane and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:57 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 14, 10:49 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet and 37 more | 116 min |
| Feb 14, 2:05 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Chambers and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 14, 2:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, DeWitt and 16 more | 117 min |
| Feb 14, 3:49 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Cherokee, Colorado and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 14, 5:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Refugio, San Patricio and 1 more | 90 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.