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Mesoscale Discussion 1720

August 8, 201235 counties in Arkansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma; 43 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 8, 2012, 1:33 PM CDT for 35 counties in Arkansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma; 43 counties in Texas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 2012, 1:33 PM CDT (18:33 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2012, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%
All 87 counties

Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Clark County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner 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, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Adair County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Anderson County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Marion County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Morris County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Smith County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 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 (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 2012-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2782 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 2012-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 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
2782 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 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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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2012Every 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.