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Mesoscale Discussion 180
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 26, 2018, 8:51 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Love County, Oklahoma; 31 counties in Texas. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2018, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2018, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Jefferson County, OK, Love County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 265 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -153 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 12:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callahan, Coke, Crockett, Haskell, Irion, Jones and 6 more | 117 min |
| Mar 27, 4:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 11 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2018Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.