Alert archive / Missouri / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 2268
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 14, 2008, 2:06 AM CDT for 4 counties in Arkansas; 20 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 84 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 14, 2008, 2:06 AM CDT (07:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2008, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Marion County, AR, Carter County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Madison County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Washington County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:07 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 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Columbia, Union | 7 hr |
| Sep 13, 7:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 44 more | 53 min |
| Sep 13, 11:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Chicot and 33 more | 57 min |
| Sep 14, 1:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Phillips | 92 min |
| Sep 14, 1:57 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 14, 6:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 8 more | 96 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2008Every mesoscale discussion in 2008
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.