Alert archive / Missouri / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 489
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 27, 2008, 7:32 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2008, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2008, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR, Randolph County, IL, Barry County, MO, Christian County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Greene County, MO, Iron County, MO, Jefferson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Washington County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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, 0.5 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
- 1283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
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, 8:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Izard, Marion, Newton, Searcy, Stone and 1 more | 84 min |
| Mar 27, 9:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Washington | 89 min |
| Mar 27, 9:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski | 65 min |
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.