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Mesoscale Discussion 159
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 29, 2016, 11:33 PM CST for Crawford County, Sebastian County, Arkansas; 26 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 29, 2016, 11:33 PM CST (05:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2016, 12:30 AM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Crawford County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:36 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 1:47 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 28 more | 88 min |
| Feb 29, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo and 59 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 29, 9:43 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland and 37 more | 92 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 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.