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Mesoscale Discussion 1698
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 16, 2016, 12:46 PM CDT for 14 counties in Arkansas; 22 counties in Missouri; Adair County, Delaware County, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 2016, 12:46 PM CDT (17:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2016, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
All 39 counties
Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Washington County, AR, Barry County, MO, Christian County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Howell County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Adair County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Ottawa County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:45 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 1628 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 904 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted.
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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.