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Mesoscale Discussion 1207
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 8, 2016, 1:59 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2016, 1:59 PM CDT (18:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 72 counties
Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne 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, Alexander County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Union County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Madison County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Perry County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Wright County, MO, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, Obion County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 2153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 1:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne and 17 more | 90 min |
| Jul 8, 9:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 97 min |
| Jul 8, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Randolph and 1 more | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 5:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Wabash | 84 min |
| Jul 8, 9:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Bullitt, Campbell, Carroll, Franklin and 12 more | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 101 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson and 10 more | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 2:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Bell, Breathitt, Casey, Clark, Clay and 32 more | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 8:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cass, Cedar and 11 more | 119 min |
| Jul 7, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 11:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 16 more | 119 min |
| Jul 8, 12:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Campbell, Cannon and 50 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Johnson | 88 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2016Every mesoscale discussion in 2016
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.