Alert archive / Oklahoma / Mesoscale Discussions in 2016
Mesoscale Discussion 1295
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 15, 2016, 9:07 PM CDT for 28 counties in Oklahoma; 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 2016, 9:07 PM CDT (02:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grady County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Archer County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Motley County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 1416 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 11:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 9 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016Every mesoscale discussion in 2016
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.