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Mesoscale Discussion 1045
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 17, 2015, 5:31 AM CDT for 5 counties in Oklahoma; 55 counties in Texas. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2015, 5:31 AM CDT (10:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2015, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 60 counties
Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Austin County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Collin County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Harris County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Houston County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Leon County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, Milam County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Morris County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Polk County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Rusk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:35 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 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 937 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 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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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 12:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 10:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Brazoria, Brazos and 47 more | 85 min |
| Jun 16, 11:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, Fayette and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, Fort Bend and 11 more | 119 min |
| Jun 17, 7:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson and 50 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar, Rains and 4 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2015Every mesoscale discussion in 2015
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.