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Mesoscale Discussion 2008

December 12, 201511 counties in Oklahoma; 40 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 12, 2015, 6:09 PM CST for 11 counties in Oklahoma; 40 counties in Texas. It was in force for 96 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Dec 12, 2015, 6:09 PM CST (00:09 UTC)
Expired
Dec 12, 2015, 7:45 PM CST
In force
96 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
40%
All 51 counties

Choctaw County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Anderson County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Delta County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Houston County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Leon County, TX, Madison County, TX, Marion 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, 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, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2015-12-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 374 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2015-12-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 296 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
374 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
296 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
305 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.4

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 12, 9:14 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Comanche, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 4 more2 hr
Dec 12, 11:40 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCComanche, Cotton, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman35 min
Dec 13, 9:18 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaver, Cimarron, Texas6 hr
Dec 13, 7:17 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChambers, Galveston88 min

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.