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Mesoscale Discussion 64
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 4, 2014, 9:59 AM CST for 6 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 4, 2014, 9:59 AM CST (15:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 4, 2014, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties
Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Greene County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Gibson County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Dyer County, TN, Lake County, TN, Obion County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:00 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
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 622 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 5:45 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 4, 11:38 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 4, 3:16 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Edgar, Lawrence | 6 hr |
| Feb 4, 3:34 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 10 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 4, 6:07 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone and 51 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.