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Mesoscale Discussion 1706

August 18, 2015Curry County, Harding County, Quay County, New Mexico; 4 counties in Oklahoma; 17 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 18, 2015, 2:15 PM MDT for Curry County, Harding County, Quay County, New Mexico; 4 counties in Oklahoma; 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 18, 2015, 2:15 PM MDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 2015, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

All 24 counties

Curry County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Beckham County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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
Aug 17, 6:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cimarron, Texas	5 hr
Aug 17, 9:39 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cimarron, Texas	2 hr
Aug 18, 1:11 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Major, Noble and 1 more	3 hr
Aug 18, 2:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 17 more	7 hr
Aug 18, 4:15 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Garfield, Grant and 11 more	90 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2015 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.