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Mesoscale Discussion 865

May 10, 200819 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 10, 2008, 3:59 PM CDT for 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 2008, 3:59 PM CDT (20:59 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Bandera County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Llano County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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 watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Tornado Watch 297May 10, 4:15 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
May 9, 8:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Burnet, Coryell, Falls, Lampasas, Limestone and 5 more	61 min
May 10, 4:05 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Red River, Titus	115 min
May 10, 12:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Cooke, Delta and 11 more	88 min
May 10, 1:38 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Delta, Fannin and 16 more	10 hr
May 10, 4:16 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Coryell, Dallas and 20 more	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.