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Mesoscale Discussion 195

April 3, 20154 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 3, 2015, 1:16 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 3, 2015, 1:16 AM CDT (06:16 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2015, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 56 counties

Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Clay County, AR, Craighead 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, Stone County, AR, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Labette County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Butler County, MO, Carter County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Greene County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Polk County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Ottawa County, OK

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:16 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1838 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 5.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 7:02 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Fulton, Marion	8 hr
Apr 2, 10:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Marion	93 min
Apr 3, 1:35 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Fulton and 14 more	6 hr
Apr 3, 1:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll	4 hr
Apr 3, 5:43 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Fulton, Greene and 13 more	2 hr
Apr 3, 12:14 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Mississippi	8 hr
Apr 3, 3:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 6 more	93 min
Apr 3, 5:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Union	2 hr
Apr 3, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Ashley, Chicot	4 hr
Apr 2, 7:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Cloud, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney and 34 more	85 min
Apr 2, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 35 more	5 hr
Apr 2, 11:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Elk, Greenwood, Harvey, McPherson, Reno and 3 more	61 min
Apr 3, 1:57 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Coffey, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 2 more	63 min
Apr 2, 7:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Iron, Madison, Perry, Sainte Genevieve and 3 more	58 min
Apr 2, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Iron and 13 more	6 hr
Apr 3, 3:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Scott	66 min
Apr 3, 4:37 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Christian, Dent, Douglas, Howell, Laclede, Oregon and 8 more	83 min
Apr 3, 11:56 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Mississippi, Pemiscot	94 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015 Every 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.