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Mesoscale Discussion 265
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 3, 2014, 3:48 PM CDT for 5 counties in Arkansas; 24 counties in Missouri; 13 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2014, 3:48 PM CDT (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2014, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Webster County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 1727 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 417 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 423 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.5
- Supercell composite
- 15.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 9:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 28 more | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 9:33 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Clark and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 27 more | 55 min |
| Apr 3, 12:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 87 min |
| Apr 3, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Miller, Montgomery, Pike and 4 more | 89 min |
| Apr 3, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Conway and 35 more | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Conway and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 9:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cass, Cedar and 18 more | 54 min |
| Apr 2, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Carroll, Cass and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Carroll, Cass and 22 more | 90 min |
| Apr 3, 1:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clark and 19 more | 55 min |
| Apr 3, 2:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone and 65 more | 116 min |
| Apr 3, 12:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Iron, Madison, Mississippi and 7 more | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Iron and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Carroll, Chariton, Cooper, Howard and 10 more | 58 min |
| Apr 3, 6:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Love, McCurtain, Marshall and 1 more | 93 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 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.