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Mesoscale Discussion 785

May 26, 201512 counties in Oklahoma; 27 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 26, 2015, 1:35 PM CDT for 12 counties in Oklahoma; 27 counties in Texas. It was in force for 85 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2015, 1:35 PM CDT (18:35 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2015, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 85 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 60%

All 39 counties

Caddo County, OK, Carter County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Grady County, OK, Greer County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Knox County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 224 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1151 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 2:53 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cotton, Jackson, Jefferson, Tillman	7 hr
May 26, 3:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Craig, Creek, Delaware, Kay, Lincoln, Mayes and 10 more	53 min
May 26, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 22 more	7 hr
May 26, 5:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cotton, Jefferson, Tillman	93 min
May 25, 8:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, DeWitt and 22 more	85 min
May 25, 11:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Brazoria, Caldwell, Calhoun and 26 more	92 min
May 26, 3:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Crockett, Irion, Reagan, Schleicher, Sterling and 4 more	66 min
May 26, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Glasscock and 14 more	4 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.