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Mesoscale Discussion 959

May 22, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 22, 2005, 2:13 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 2005, 2:13 PM CDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 2005, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties

Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Washington County, AR, Barber County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Harper County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Polk County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Adair County, OK, Alfalfa County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 75 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2005-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 131 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2005-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 404 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
131 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-492 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
404 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
509 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.3

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 21, 7:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Clay, Cloud, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 5 more94 min
May 22, 12:56 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDoniphan, Wyandotte64 min
May 22, 5:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Montgomery and 1 more91 min
May 21, 8:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Andrew, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Clark and 25 more2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005Every mesoscale discussion in 2005

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.