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Mesoscale Discussion 965

May 23, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 23, 2005, 2:31 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2005, 2:31 AM CDT (07:31 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2005, 3:30 AM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 66 counties

Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Pope County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Adair County, OK, Alfalfa County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield 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), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 313May 23, 3:25 AM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 3459 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 366 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 36.3

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 9:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford and 10 more	117 min
May 22, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford, Franklin and 8 more	6 hr
May 22, 11:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford, Franklin and 8 more	115 min
May 23, 3:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Benton, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway, Crawford and 28 more	8 hr
May 23, 6:48 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Benton, Carroll, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway and 30 more	87 min
May 23, 12:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Pike and 3 more	97 min
May 23, 2:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace	67 min
May 23, 3:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace	8 hr
May 23, 4:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery	84 min
May 23, 5:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gove and 28 more	87 min
May 23, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant, Gray and 17 more	5 hr
May 23, 5:10 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Lincoln, McClain and 3 more	65 min
May 23, 4:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cimarron	96 min
May 23, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cimarron, Texas	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2005 Every 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.