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Mesoscale Discussion 178

April 1, 201511 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 1, 2015, 3:57 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 1, 2015, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
Expired: Apr 1, 2015, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

Counties Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Collingsworth County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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
Apr 1, 12:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Crawford	3 hr
Apr 1, 3:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Phillips and 3 more	115 min
Apr 1, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Republic and 3 more	7 hr
Mar 31, 8:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 39 more	91 min
Mar 31, 9:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Beckham, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw and 29 more	66 min
Mar 31, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 31 more	6 hr
Apr 1, 1:16 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coal, Haskell, Hughes, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh and 2 more	89 min
Apr 1, 2:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Dallas and 18 more	3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.