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Mesoscale Discussion 72

February 13, 202615 counties in Oklahoma; 28 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 13, 2026, 10:11 PM CST for 15 counties in Oklahoma; 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 13, 2026, 10:11 PM CST (04:11 UTC)
Expired: Feb 14, 2026, 12:45 AM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...watch unlikely
Chance of a watch: 20%

All 43 counties

Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Howard County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 279 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: 531 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
Feb 13, 6:28 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 15 more	3 hr
Feb 14, 3:57 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland and 10 more	2 hr
Feb 14, 10:49 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet and 37 more	116 min
Feb 14, 2:05 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Chambers and 32 more	2 hr
Feb 14, 2:48 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, DeWitt and 16 more	117 min
Feb 14, 3:49 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Cherokee, Colorado and 33 more	5 hr
Feb 14, 5:15 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Refugio, San Patricio and 1 more	90 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2026 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2026 Every mesoscale discussion in 2026

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.