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Mesoscale Discussion 188

April 2, 20156 counties in Oklahoma; 26 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 2, 2015, 3:41 PM CDT for 6 counties in Oklahoma; 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2015, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2015, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

All 32 counties

Carter County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Denton County, TX, Erath County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hood County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Parker County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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, 7:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Dewey, Major, Woods, Woodward	64 min
Apr 2, 4:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers and 1 more	88 min

Nearby

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