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Mesoscale Discussion 86

February 22, 201815 counties in Oklahoma; 47 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 22, 2018, 6:11 AM CST for 15 counties in Oklahoma; 47 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Feb 22, 2018, 6:11 AM CST (12:11 UTC)
Expired
Feb 22, 2018, 8:45 AM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
5%
All 62 counties

Carter County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 141 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2018-02-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2018-02-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 341 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
405 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
341 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
344 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 21, 7:02 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Grant, Woods4 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.