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Mesoscale Discussion 2294

November 7, 2011Love County, Marshall County, Oklahoma; 10 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 7, 2011, 5:53 PM CST for Love County, Marshall County, Oklahoma; 10 counties in Texas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 7, 2011, 5:53 PM CST (23:53 UTC)
Expired: Nov 7, 2011, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 67 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hood County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Montague County, TX, Parker County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watches that followed

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

Tornado Watch 872Nov 7, 6:45 PM CST

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 40 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: 1281 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 5.9

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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
Nov 6, 7:00 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carter, Garvin, Jefferson, Johnston, Love, Marshall and 2 more	90 min
Nov 7, 7:52 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 15 more	83 min
Nov 7, 12:27 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Greer and 6 more	93 min
Nov 7, 1:11 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 17 more	8 hr
Nov 7, 1:30 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Dewey, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher and 4 more	2 hr
Nov 7, 4:58 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Nowata, Osage, Washington	92 min
Nov 7, 5:37 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Craig, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee, Washington	7 hr
Nov 7, 5:51 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Custer, Garfield and 10 more	114 min
Nov 7, 2:41 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Eastland, Fisher, Haskell and 9 more	94 min
Nov 7, 5:04 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Castro, Deaf Smith, Gray, Hutchinson and 3 more	56 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2011 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2011 Every mesoscale discussion in 2011

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.