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Mesoscale Discussion 173

March 25, 2018Love County, Oklahoma; Cooke County, Montague County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 25, 2018, 7:31 PM CDT for Love County, Oklahoma; Cooke County, Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 2018, 7:31 PM CDT (00:31 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 2018, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

Counties Love County, OK, Cooke County, TX, Montague County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 12:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Jefferson, Stephens, Tillman	2 hr
Mar 26, 12:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 11 more	8 hr
Mar 26, 3:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cotton	59 min
Mar 26, 6:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carter, Cotton, Jefferson, Love, Marshall	2 hr
Mar 26, 2:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Crockett, Glasscock, Irion, Pecos, Reagan and 4 more	2 hr
Mar 26, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Callahan, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Fisher, Glasscock and 19 more	11 hr
Mar 26, 5:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Crane, Crockett, Glasscock, Irion, Midland and 9 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2018 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.