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Mesoscale Discussion 701

May 19, 20136 counties in Oklahoma; Lipscomb County, Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 19, 2013, 3:27 PM CDT for 6 counties in Oklahoma; Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2013, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2013, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

Counties Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 413 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -348 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 9:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 33 more	57 min
May 18, 10:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cleveland, Creek, Garvin, Grady, Hughes, Lincoln and 14 more	31 min
May 18, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Craig and 24 more	4 hr
May 19, 5:25 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Craig, Nowata, Washington	2 hr
May 19, 12:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Grant, Kay, Nowata, Washington	114 min
May 19, 1:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 26 more	60 min
May 19, 2:14 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 50 more	9 hr
May 19, 4:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	53 min
May 19, 5:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cleveland, Creek, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie	37 min
May 19, 6:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Creek, Kay, Lincoln, Noble, Okfuskee, Oklahoma and 5 more	63 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2013 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.