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Mesoscale Discussion 201
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 10, 2026, 8:57 PM CDT for 9 counties in Oklahoma; 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 2026, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2026, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Tornado and severe thunderstorm watches 33...38
All 21 counties
Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Coal County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Montague County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 2609 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1025 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.4
- Supercell composite
- 11.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 9:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 24 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 10, 10:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Delaware, Haskell and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 10, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet, Collin and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 10, 11:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet, Coryell and 25 more | 84 min |
| Mar 11, 3:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Cass, Cherokee, Freestone, Gregg, Harrison and 7 more | 97 min |
| Mar 11, 7:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Colorado, Fort Bend, Hardin, Harris and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 11, 10:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Chambers, Fort Bend, Grimes, Hardin and 16 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:25 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend and 23 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Newton, Polk, Sabine and 2 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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.