Alert archive / Oklahoma / Mesoscale Discussions in 2006
Mesoscale Discussion 370
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 30, 2006, 7:48 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2006, 7:48 PM CST (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2006, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Montague County, TX, Wise County, TX
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 9:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Fulton, Izard, Johnson, Logan and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 11:34 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Sebastian | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 1:13 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne, Conway and 18 more | 62 min |
| Mar 31, 1:58 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Clay, Cleburne and 32 more | 92 min |
| Mar 31, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 8:29 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon | 91 min |
| Mar 31, 3:41 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Concho, Irion, Menard, Reagan, Runnels and 3 more | 94 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.