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Mesoscale Discussion 2084
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 26, 2005, 1:01 PM CDT for 50 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2005, 1:01 PM CDT (18:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2005, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Clark County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Greene County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 1363 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1226 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 5:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi | 57 min |
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.