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Mesoscale Discussion 933
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2024, 1:48 PM CDT for 22 counties in Oklahoma; 35 counties in Texas. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2024, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2024, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch likely
- Chance of a watch
- 95%
All 57 counties
Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 2205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson, Tillman | 57 min |
| May 23, 9:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Johnston, Love, Marshall | 85 min |
| May 23, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 12:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Garvin, Johnston and 3 more | 91 min |
| May 24, 2:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, McCurtain, Marshall, Pushmataha | 114 min |
| May 24, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 23 more | 9 hr |
| May 24, 5:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 13 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2024Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2024Every 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.