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Mesoscale Discussion 76
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 14, 2026, 2:48 PM CST for 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2026, 2:48 PM CST (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2026, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch unlikely
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 22 counties
Atascosa County, TX, Bee County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Frio County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Karnes County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Maverick County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Medina County, TX, Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 6:28 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 15 more | 3 hr |
| 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, 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.