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Mesoscale Discussion 150
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 5, 2008, 5:03 AM CST for 12 counties in Kansas; 43 counties in Oklahoma; 23 counties in Texas. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2008, 5:03 AM CST (11:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2008, 7:00 AM CST
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 78 counties
Allen County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kay County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Parker County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:03 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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, 11:58 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 7:07 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Cheyenne, Clay, Cloud and 61 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 5:26 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 4, 7:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Creek, Delaware, Lincoln, Mayes, Nowata and 6 more | 87 min |
| Feb 5, 2:31 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 24 more | 2 hr |
| 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 |
| Feb 5, 2:00 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 40 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 11:16 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 14 more | 89 min |
| Feb 5, 3:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Leon and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 5:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 14 more | 96 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.