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Mesoscale Discussion 1725

December 26, 201828 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 26, 2018, 12:28 PM CST for 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Dec 26, 2018, 12:28 PM CST (18:28 UTC)
Expired: Dec 26, 2018, 2:30 PM CST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 95%

All 28 counties

Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jones County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 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 442Dec 26, 2:10 PM CST

The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 26, 11:33 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Coke, Crockett and 24 more	117 min
Dec 26, 12:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 40 more	6 hr
Dec 26, 2:11 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman and 29 more	10 hr
Dec 26, 3:21 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Coke and 34 more	84 min
Dec 26, 4:43 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 42 more	2 hr
Dec 26, 4:58 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 42 more	62 min
Dec 26, 5:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more	4 hr
Dec 26, 5:48 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 17 more	8 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2018 Every mesoscale discussion in 2018

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.