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Mesoscale Discussion 418

April 2, 2012Choctaw County, Sumter County, Washington County, Alabama; Orleans Parish, Saint Bernard Parish, Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana; 48 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 2, 2012, 5:36 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Sumter County, Washington County, Alabama; Orleans Parish, Saint Bernard Parish, Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana; 48 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 2, 2012, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired
Apr 2, 2012, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties

Choctaw County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Washington County, AL, Orleans Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Attala County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Scott County, MS, Smith County, MS, Stone County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 61 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2012-04-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1280 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2012-04-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -68 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1280 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 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.

690 
ACUS11 KWNS 022236
SWOMCD
SPC MCD 022236 
ALZ000-MSZ000-LAZ000-022330-

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0418
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0536 PM CDT MON APR 02 2012

AREAS AFFECTED...NRN/ERN MS...FAR SERN LA...FAR WRN AL

CONCERNING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 128...

VALID 022236Z - 022330Z

THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 128
CONTINUES.

ALTHOUGH THE ARCING QLCS HAS LARGELY WEAKENED W OF WW 128...MOST
INTENSE PORTION OF THE QLCS WAS LOCATED JUST N OF JAN WITH A HISTORY
OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO PROPAGATE NEWD.
AIR MASS IS LIKELY MODERATELY UNSTABLE ROUGHLY SW OF A BOLIVAR TO
GRENADA TO KEMPER COUNTY LINE WHERE BOUNDARY LAYER CU ARE PRESENT.
NE OF THIS LINE...LACK OF CU SUGGESTS A SOMEWHAT DRIER BOUNDARY
LAYER AND MODEST MLCIN EVIDENT IN MODIFIED RR FORECAST SOUNDINGS.
RECENT HRRR RUNS INDICATE THE QLCS SHOULD RAPIDLY WEAKEN BETWEEN
00-02Z LIKELY AS A RESULT OF THE AFOREMENTIONED THERMODYNAMIC
CONCERNS. THUS...COVERAGE OF THE DAMAGING WIND THREAT SHOULD BECOME
MORE LOCALIZED AND SUGGESTS A DOWNSTREAM WW MAY NOT BE NEEDED.

FARTHER S IN FAR SERN LA...GUST FRONT HAS SURGED AROUND 5-10 SM
AHEAD OF DEEPER CONVECTION PER KLIX RADAR WITH THE QLCS MOVING E AT
ONLY 20 KT. ALTHOUGH THE AIR MASS ALONG THE CNTRL GULF COAST IS
FAIRLY UNSTABLE WITH MLCAPE AOA 2000 J/KG...MODEST SLY DEEP-LAYER
SHEAR SUGGEST WIND DAMAGE POTENTIAL SHOULD BE RELEGATED TO LOCALIZED
WET MICROBURSTS. AS SUCH...A DOWNSTREAM WW DOES NOT APPEAR LIKELY
ATTM.

..GRAMS.. 04/02/2012

...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT...

ATTN...WFO...BMX...MOB...MEG...JAN...LIX...

LAT...LON   29869021 30958986 32498993 33429078 33909084 34519024
            34448932 34128850 32248791 31548789 30348840 29468932
            29869021

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 2, 9:57 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAcadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 27 more63 min
Apr 2, 10:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAcadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 31 more7 hr
Apr 2, 12:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAcadia, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Bienville, Bossier and 49 more90 min
Apr 2, 12:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClaiborne, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union, Webster6 hr
Apr 2, 12:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAscension, Assumption, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll and 25 more7 hr
Apr 2, 3:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCUnion117 min
Apr 2, 3:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEast Carroll, East Feliciana, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, Orleans and 9 more2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Louisiana, 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.