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Mesoscale Discussion 488
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 27, 2008, 3:25 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 95 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2008, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2008, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Benton County, AR, Cherokee County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Cole County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Osage County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Webster County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 458 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 27, 4:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Boone, Butler, Callaway, Cape Girardeau, Carter and 36 more | 96 min |
| Mar 27, 12:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callaway, Cole, Cooper, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Howell, Iron and 15 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.