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Mesoscale Discussion 834
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 5, 2014, 9:27 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2014, 9:27 AM CDT (14:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2014, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 95%
All 65 counties
Baxter County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Marion County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Fulton County, KY, Butler County, MO, Carter County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Howell County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wright County, MO, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Union County, MS, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Perry County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:26 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1632 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Greene, Randolph | 8 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Marion | 93 min |
| Jun 5, 6:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 7:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 16 more | 53 min |
| Jun 4, 9:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Douglas and 7 more | 113 min |
| Jun 4, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 6:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Bates, Cass, Cedar, Dade, Jasper and 3 more | 86 min |
| Jun 5, 8:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bates, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Cooper, Henry and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 10:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Cooper, Howard and 7 more | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 11:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Bradley, Cannon, Carroll and 46 more | 97 min |
| Jun 5, 2:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Coffee, Decatur, Franklin, Giles, Grundy and 8 more | 91 min |
| Jun 5, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bedford, Bledsoe, Bradley, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee and 28 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 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.