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Mesoscale Discussion 224

February 25, 201321 counties in Arkansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 25, 2013, 3:37 PM CST for 21 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 83 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 25, 2013, 3:37 PM CST (21:37 UTC)
Expired: Feb 25, 2013, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 83 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 21 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Grant County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 258 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 691 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 385 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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
Feb 25, 9:25 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Columbia, Dallas and 7 more	65 min
Feb 25, 12:26 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ashley, Chicot, Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Union	10 hr
Feb 25, 12:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 31 more	5 hr
Feb 25, 2:15 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashley, Union	90 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2013 Every mesoscale discussion in 2013

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.