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Mesoscale Discussion 160
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 1, 2016, 1:47 AM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2016, 1:47 AM CST (07:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2016, 3:15 AM CST
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 74 counties
Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Garland County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan 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, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Barry County, MO, Douglas County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Red River County, TX
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:47 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 261 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 11:33 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Sebastian | 57 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 Arkansas, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.