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Mesoscale Discussion 658

May 16, 20156 counties in Oklahoma; 42 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 16, 2015, 11:57 AM CDT for 6 counties in Oklahoma; 42 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 2015, 11:57 AM CDT (16:57 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2015, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 80%

All 48 counties

Beckham County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Childress County, TX, Coke County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Randall County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:00 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 watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Tornado Watch 175May 16, 12:50 PM CDT

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
May 15, 8:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Cimarron, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Texas	2 hr
May 15, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beaver	5 hr
May 16, 1:32 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Ellis, Harmon	88 min
May 16, 10:55 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Garfield, Grant and 9 more	95 min
May 16, 12:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cimarron, Texas	89 min
May 16, 12:58 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beaver, Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Roger Mills and 2 more	6 hr
May 16, 3:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Grant, Kay	86 min
May 16, 3:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo and 42 more	94 min
May 16, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 37 more	8 hr
May 16, 5:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo and 40 more	95 min
May 16, 2:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Glasscock and 18 more	92 min
May 16, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Cooke and 21 more	5 hr

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.