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Mesoscale Discussion 254
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 23, 2016, 6:17 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas; 22 counties in Missouri; Craig County, Nowata County, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2016, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2016, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 37 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Clay County, MO, Dade County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Polk County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 927 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 740 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 733 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 23, 1:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan | 2 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Doniphan | 7 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, McIntosh and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 23, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 20 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.