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Mesoscale Discussion 2191

November 3, 20247 counties in Oklahoma; 21 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 3, 2024, 1:13 PM CST for 7 counties in Oklahoma; 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 3, 2024, 1:13 PM CST (19:13 UTC)
Expired: Nov 3, 2024, 2:45 PM CST
In force: 92 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe thunderstorm watch 701

All 28 counties

Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Knox County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 702Nov 3, 2:05 PM CST

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 317 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 7.9

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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
Nov 2, 8:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Tillman	3 hr
Nov 2, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 20 more	5 hr
Nov 3, 1:37 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche and 23 more	113 min
Nov 3, 1:40 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland and 32 more	5 hr
Nov 3, 1:54 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 21 more	96 min
Nov 3, 3:30 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Carter, Cherokee, Coal, Creek, Hughes and 17 more	90 min
Nov 3, 11:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beckham, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 3 more	5 hr
Nov 3, 1:49 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 21 more	56 min
Nov 3, 2:02 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw and 26 more	8 hr
Nov 3, 2:40 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield and 9 more	2 hr
Nov 3, 2:55 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Grady, McClain and 2 more	65 min
Nov 3, 3:19 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Jefferson, Johnston and 3 more	56 min
Nov 3, 4:52 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Johnston, McCurtain and 2 more	2 hr
Nov 3, 9:51 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay and 51 more	114 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2024 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2024 Every mesoscale discussion in 2024

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.