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Mesoscale Discussion 1828

November 28, 2016Bradley County, Arkansas; 28 parishes in Louisiana; 9 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 28, 2016, 1:02 PM CST for Bradley County, Arkansas; 28 parishes in Louisiana; 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 28, 2016, 1:02 PM CST (19:02 UTC)
Expired: Nov 28, 2016, 3:00 PM CST
In force: 118 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 38 counties

Bradley County, AR, Acadia Parish, LA, Allen Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Bienville Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Angelina County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Tyler County, TX

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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 watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Tornado Watch 502Nov 28, 2:45 PM CST

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 101 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 601 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 423 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 28, 7:40 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller	3 hr
Nov 28, 11:08 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Columbia, Lafayette, Union	6 hr
Nov 28, 10:10 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 16 more	2 hr
Nov 28, 2:23 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Caldwell and 27 more	2 hr
Nov 28, 2:49 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ascension, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana and 13 more	6 hr
Nov 28, 5:07 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington, West Baton Rouge and 1 more	83 min
Nov 27, 11:34 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Delta, Denton and 14 more	2 hr
Nov 27, 11:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clay, Collin, Cooke, Denton, Fannin, Grayson and 5 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Louisiana, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2016 Every 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.