Alert archive / Oklahoma / Mesoscale Discussions in 2015
Mesoscale Discussion 1616
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 5, 2015, 8:08 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 97 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2015, 8:08 AM CDT (13:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2015, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 97 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties
Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Madison County, AR, Newton County, AR, Washington County, AR, Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Dade County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Stone County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:11 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 635 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 405 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 433 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 1:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 28 more | 114 min |
| Aug 5, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 21 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 5, 3:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee, Lonoke and 7 more | 97 min |
| Aug 4, 8:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 15 more | 90 min |
| Aug 5, 3:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Dickinson and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 5, 6:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 24 more | 95 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2015Every mesoscale discussion in 2015
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.