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Mesoscale Discussion 1448

June 30, 20114 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 30, 2011, 12:47 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 2011, 12:47 PM CDT (17:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2011, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties

Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Clark County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Garland County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Newton County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Union County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Cass County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Red River County, TX, Titus County, TX

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 227 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2011-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1415 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2011-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1415 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1324 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 2:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCUnion3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2011Every mesoscale discussion in 2011

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.