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Mesoscale Discussion 2068
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 26, 2015, 3:51 PM CST for 8 counties in Arkansas; 24 counties in Oklahoma; 57 counties in Texas. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 26, 2015, 3:51 PM CST (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 26, 2015, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 89 counties
Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Camp County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Morris County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Smith County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX, Wood County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 703 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 724 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 4:29 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi, Monroe and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 26, 12:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Howard, Logan, Montgomery, Pike, Polk and 4 more | 58 min |
| Dec 26, 12:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Polk, Scott and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 26, 11:39 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Grady, Logan, Oklahoma and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 26, 5:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell and 11 more | 83 min |
| Dec 26, 2:58 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bastrop, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet and 15 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 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.