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Mesoscale Discussion 75
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 14, 2026, 2:05 PM CST for De Soto Parish, Sabine Parish, Louisiana; 38 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2026, 2:05 PM CST (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2026, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch possible
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 40 counties
De Soto Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Austin County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harris County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Houston County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Leon County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Madison County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Panola County, TX, Polk County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 3:49 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Natchitoches and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 13, 6:28 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 15 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 13, 10:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crane and 22 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, 2:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, DeWitt and 16 more | 117 min |
| 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, 2026Mesoscale Discussions in Louisiana, 2026Every 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.