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Mesoscale Discussion 1402

July 16, 201434 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 16, 2014, 2:28 PM CDT for 34 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 16, 2014, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2014, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 5%

All 34 counties

Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Jones County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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 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
Jul 16, 3:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Castro, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Moore, Oldham and 3 more	89 min
Jul 16, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley and 6 more	7 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.