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Mesoscale Discussion 1745
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 12, 2012, 6:06 PM CDT for Bryan County, Johnston County, Marshall County, Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 2012, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Bryan County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Cooke County, TX, Denton County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 83 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 792 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -434 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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ACUS11 KWNS 122306
SWOMCD
SPC MCD 122306
OKZ000-TXZ000-130000-
MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1745
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0606 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2012
AREAS AFFECTED...N CNTRL TX
CONCERNING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 573...
VALID 122306Z - 130000Z
THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 573
CONTINUES.
SUMMARY...THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF DMGG WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO
DEVELOP AND SLOWLY PROGRESS ESEWD WITH TIME. A NEW WW IS BEING
CONSIDERED ACROSS ERN OK...NERN TX...SERN KS...NWRN AR AND SWRN MO.
ADDITIONAL STORMS APPEAR TO BE DEVELOPING ACROSS S CNTRL OK.
DISCUSSION...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG A WEAK SW-NE
ORIENTED COLD FRONT/WIND SHIFT EXTENDING ROUGHLY FROM JUST N OF MAF
NEWD INTO SERN OK. ERN MOST STORMS APPEAR TO BETTER SUSTAINED AMIDST
A WEAK LOW-LEVEL WARM ADVECTION REGIME BENEATH NWLY FLOW ALOFT.
VEERING WINDS WITH INCREASING HEIGHT CONFIRMED BY AREA VAD WIND
PROFILE DATA...AND GREATER MOISTURE /PREDOMINANTLY ABOVE 700 MB/
COMPARED TO AREAS WWD IS LIKELY CONTRIBUTING TO SUSTAINED UPDRAFTS.
A WELL-MIXED BOUNDARY LAYER/STEEP LOW LEVEL LAPSE RATES OWING TO
DIURNAL HEATING /SURFACE TEMPERATURES NEAR 102 TO 104 F AND LOWER
60S F DEW POINTS/ WILL SUPPORT DMGG WIND POTENTIAL AS EVAPORATIVE
COOLING AND PRECIPITATION LOADING ENSUE.
..HURLBUT.. 08/12/2012
...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT...
ATTN...WFO...FWD...OUN...SJT...LUB...MAF...
LAT...LON 33709742 34459678 34259616 33579613 32999693 32529801
32289968 32250056 32720077 33569818 33709742SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 3:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 7 more | 31 min |
| Aug 12, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Jefferson, Johnston and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 12, 6:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Delaware, Haskell and 15 more | 92 min |
Nearby
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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.