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Mesoscale Discussion 965

May 21, 20084 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 21, 2008, 6:17 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 21, 2008, 6:17 PM MDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired
May 21, 2008, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties

Baca County, CO, Grant County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, King County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 21, 7:40 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips and 4 more65 min
May 21, 9:35 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma25 min
May 22, 11:06 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Denver, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan and 4 more24 min
May 22, 11:25 AM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver and 14 more9 hr
May 22, 12:34 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver, Douglas and 10 more86 min
May 22, 4:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver, Douglas and 10 more85 min
May 22, 2:38 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 12 more97 min
May 22, 12:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Finney, Ford and 16 more61 min
May 22, 12:52 PM MDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBarber, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 33 more10 hr
May 22, 3:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 31 more58 min
May 22, 5:46 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 35 more59 min
May 22, 1:28 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche and 15 more7 hr
May 22, 4:18 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHaskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha, Sequoyah57 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.