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Mesoscale Discussion 2170
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 24, 2025, 3:33 PM CDT for 4 counties in Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2025, 3:33 PM CDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2025, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch possible
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 24 counties
Cotton County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Love County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 12:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Harmon, Jackson, Tillman | 8 hr |
| Oct 24, 1:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Kiowa and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 23, 8:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Ector, Fisher, Glasscock, Haskell, Howard and 9 more | 115 min |
| Oct 24, 11:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Childress, Coke, Cottle, Crane and 39 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 24, 2:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Crockett, Irion, Pecos, Reagan, Schleicher and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 24, 6:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hood, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Wise | 90 min |
| Oct 24, 6:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Edwards, Kinney, Real, Uvalde, Val Verde | 114 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2025Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2025Every mesoscale discussion in 2025
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.