Alert archive / Oklahoma / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 149
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 5, 2008, 2:31 AM CST for 30 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2008, 2:31 AM CST (08:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2008, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Creek County, OK, Custer County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:33 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 7:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Creek, Delaware, Lincoln, Mayes, Nowata and 6 more | 87 min |
| Feb 5, 5:03 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw, Cleveland and 37 more | 117 min |
| Feb 5, 6:39 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 10:18 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Coal, Delaware, Haskell and 13 more | 87 min |
| Feb 5, 11:56 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, McCurtain and 1 more | 90 min |
| Feb 5, 3:17 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | LeFlore, McCurtain | 88 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.