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Mesoscale Discussion 1195

June 16, 201213 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 16, 2012, 11:03 PM CDT for 13 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 87 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2012, 11:03 PM CDT (04:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2012, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 87 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

Counties Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Shannon County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Texas County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 144 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 809 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1865 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 7:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Lincoln, Osage and 5 more	92 min
Jun 16, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Lincoln, Osage, Saint Charles and 3 more	3 hr
Jun 16, 10:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Franklin, Jefferson, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis	90 min
Jun 17, 2:54 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Cedar, Dade, Polk, Vernon	3 hr
Jun 17, 5:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Audrain, Boone, Caldwell, Callaway, Carroll and 28 more	86 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2012 Every mesoscale discussion in 2012

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.