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Mesoscale Discussion 2363
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 10, 2008, 3:47 PM CST for Cotton County, Jefferson County, Tillman County, Oklahoma; 35 counties in Texas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 10, 2008, 3:47 PM CST (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2008, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Cotton County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 380 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 483 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 12:25 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cotton, Tillman | 7 hr |
| Nov 10, 12:59 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 91 min |
| Nov 10, 9:03 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Matagorda | 57 min |
| Nov 10, 11:33 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman and 25 more | 57 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.