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Mesoscale Discussion 389

March 13, 20084 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 13, 2008, 3:51 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 84 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 2008, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2008, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 84 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 56 counties

Crawford County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Caddo Parish, LA, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Collin County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 109Mar 13, 5:15 PM CDT

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 4:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 7 more	37 min
Mar 13, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Hempstead and 16 more	8 hr
Mar 13, 6:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton, Grant and 19 more	56 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2008 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2008 Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2008 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.