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October 12, 201426 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 12, 2014, 10:17 PM CDT for 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 12, 2014, 10:17 PM CDT (03:17 UTC)
Expired: Oct 12, 2014, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 80%

All 26 counties

Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 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.

Tornado Watch 531Oct 12, 11:10 PM CDT

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
Oct 12, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Clay and 31 more	7 hr
Oct 12, 9:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Fisher, Foard, Haskell and 10 more	58 min
Oct 12, 11:08 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Dallas and 29 more	7 hr
Oct 13, 1:59 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 17 more	91 min
Oct 13, 2:43 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Bowie, Camp, Cass and 50 more	92 min
Oct 13, 3:22 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Bowie, Brazos, Burleson and 31 more	8 hr
Oct 13, 6:34 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee and 25 more	86 min
Oct 13, 7:08 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Sabine	7 hr
Oct 13, 10:20 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Sabine	115 min
Oct 13, 11:10 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Newton and 2 more	8 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.