Alert archive / Oklahoma / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 360
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 6, 2008, 10:38 AM CST for 13 counties in Oklahoma; 11 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 2008, 10:38 AM CST (16:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2008, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Coal County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Clay County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Denton County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:39 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 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 6, 5:16 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Latimer and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 6, 9:59 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 24 more | 61 min |
| Mar 6, 12:09 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aransas, Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 6, 2:00 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado and 19 more | 90 min |
| Mar 6, 5:00 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado and 20 more | 60 min |
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.