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Mesoscale Discussion 1836
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 9, 2014, 1:53 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 97 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 9, 2014, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2014, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 97 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
All 44 counties
Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Cherokee County, KS, Labette County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Carter County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Madison County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 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 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 944 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 11:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 6 more | 87 min |
| Oct 9, 3:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 2 hr |
| Oct 9, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Cimarron, Ellis, Harper, Major and 4 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2014Every mesoscale discussion in 2014
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.