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Mesoscale Discussion 1048

May 26, 200828 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 26, 2008, 1:55 PM CDT for 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 95 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2008, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2008, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 95 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 28 counties

Borden County, TX, Coke County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Upton County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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 375May 26, 2:40 PM CDT

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 8:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Brewster, Castro, Crane, Crockett, Culberson and 19 more	2 hr
May 25, 9:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill and 3 more	2 hr
May 26, 1:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb and 3 more	59 min
May 26, 1:46 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley and 9 more	6 hr
May 26, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Cottle, Crane and 32 more	7 hr
May 26, 3:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley and 9 more	96 min
May 26, 6:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2008 Every mesoscale discussion in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.