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Mesoscale Discussion 1533
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 9, 2014, 4:51 PM CDT for 23 counties in Oklahoma; 23 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2014, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2014, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
All 46 counties
Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Montague County, TX, Red River County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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 nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 739 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1442 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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.