Alert archive / Oklahoma / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 2347
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 5, 2008, 9:05 AM CST for 10 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 5, 2008, 9:05 AM CST (15:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 2008, 10:30 AM CST
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Kay County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:06 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -422 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 440 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 12:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Harper, Harvey and 6 more | 83 min |
| Nov 5, 2:17 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 8 more | 10 hr |
| Nov 5, 2:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Geary, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley and 2 more | 65 min |
| Nov 5, 5:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan and 16 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 5, 5:29 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 6 more | 91 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.