Alert archive / Oklahoma / Mesoscale Discussions in 2009
Mesoscale Discussion 516
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 18, 2009, 2:49 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 86 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 2009, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2009, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 62 counties
Benton County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barry County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grant County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Kay County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 452 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 456 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 17, 9:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stanton and 1 more | 27 min |
| Apr 18, 1:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 6 more | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Ellsworth, Harper and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 18, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 27 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 18, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 24 more | 91 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2009Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2009Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2009Every mesoscale discussion in 2009
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.