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Mesoscale Discussion 330

March 25, 200325 counties in Arkansas; DeSoto County, Tunica County, Mississippi; Shelby County, Tipton County, Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 25, 2003, 4:55 PM CST for 25 counties in Arkansas; DeSoto County, Tunica County, Mississippi; Shelby County, Tipton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 2003, 4:55 PM CST (22:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 2003, 7:30 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 29 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, DeSoto County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 75Mar 25, 5:20 PM CST

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -639 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1049 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 1:39 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Howard, Little River, Sevier	3 hr
Mar 25, 1:58 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Faulkner, Greene and 11 more	2 hr
Mar 25, 2:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 15 more	5 hr
Mar 25, 3:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Howard, Little River, Montgomery, Pike, Polk, Scott and 1 more	6 hr
Mar 25, 5:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Conway, Craighead and 36 more	6 hr
Mar 25, 5:39 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Crittenden, Cross and 19 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2003 Every mesoscale discussion in 2003

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.