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Mesoscale Discussion 85

February 10, 200919 counties in Oklahoma; 19 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 10, 2009, 2:33 PM CST for 19 counties in Oklahoma; 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 87 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 10, 2009, 2:33 PM CST (20:33 UTC)
Expired: Feb 10, 2009, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 87 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 38 counties

Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 235 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 680 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.6

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 10, 12:17 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Cotton and 20 more	118 min
Feb 10, 12:49 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 19 more	9 hr
Feb 10, 1:29 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Kay, Noble, Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Washington	2 hr
Feb 10, 2:16 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and 12 more	119 min
Feb 10, 2:42 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 29 more	7 hr
Feb 10, 3:37 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	McCurtain	6 hr
Feb 10, 5:25 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	McCurtain	65 min
Feb 10, 3:45 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Eastland and 16 more	90 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2009 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2009 Every mesoscale discussion in 2009

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.