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Mesoscale Discussion 2235

November 29, 20066 counties in Arkansas; 22 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 29, 2006, 10:55 AM CST for 6 counties in Arkansas; 22 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Nov 29, 2006, 10:55 AM CST (16:55 UTC)
Expired
Nov 29, 2006, 12:00 PM CST
In force
65 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 53 counties

Benton County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:56 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 2006-11-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 259 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 2006-11-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 323 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 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
259 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
323 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
310 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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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
Nov 29, 12:28 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCrawford, Sebastian, Washington7 hr
Nov 29, 3:05 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Sebastian85 min
Nov 28, 9:57 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCraig, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Rogers, Washington2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2006Every mesoscale discussion in 2006

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.