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Mesoscale Discussion 1375

July 23, 201640 counties in Arkansas; 4 parishes in Louisiana; 11 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 23, 2016, 2:49 PM CDT for 40 counties in Arkansas; 4 parishes in Louisiana; 11 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 116 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 2016, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2016, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
116 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
5%
All 55 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Union County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, East Carroll Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Attala County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Leake County, MS, Madison County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Washington County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2016-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1852 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2016-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1852 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1348 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Louisiana, 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.