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Mesoscale Discussion 983

May 24, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2005, 9:13 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2005, 9:13 AM CDT (14:13 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2005, 9:45 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Benton County, AR, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Elk County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Barry County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:13 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 320May 24, 10:55 AM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2363 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 24, 2:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Madison, Montgomery and 4 more	7 hr
May 24, 5:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Madison and 5 more	95 min
May 24, 10:30 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Benton, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Clark and 37 more	90 min
May 24, 10:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Clark, Cleveland and 36 more	8 hr
May 24, 12:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland, Desha and 3 more	2 hr
May 24, 1:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleveland, Conway and 31 more	114 min
May 24, 3:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Cleveland, Conway, Crawford, Dallas, Faulkner and 25 more	93 min
May 24, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Columbia, Crawford, Dallas and 23 more	7 hr
May 23, 9:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 32 more	67 min
May 23, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 28 more	6 hr
May 24, 1:14 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 25 more	91 min
May 24, 1:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace	117 min
May 24, 5:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Greeley, Lane, Logan and 7 more	92 min
May 24, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Lane and 11 more	7 hr
May 23, 7:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cimarron, Texas	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.