Alert archive / Oklahoma / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 319
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 2, 2008, 5:26 PM CST for 21 counties in Oklahoma; 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2008, 5:26 PM CST (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2008, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Montague County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 718 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 11:03 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Grant, Harper, Woods, Woodward | 2 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:17 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:07 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 16 more | 9 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.