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Mesoscale Discussion 1436
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 29, 2016, 12:28 PM CDT for 40 counties in Arkansas; Howell County, Ozark County, Taney County, Missouri; LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 2016, 12:28 PM CDT (17:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2016, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 44 counties
Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, Howell County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Taney County, MO, LeFlore County, OK
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:29 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1513 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 28, 8:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Grant, Kay, Nowata, Osage, Washington | 89 min |
| Jul 29, 4:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Creek, Custer and 17 more | 90 min |
| Jul 29, 3:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.