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Mesoscale Discussion 295
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 30, 2016, 8:37 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2016, 8:37 PM CDT (01:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2016, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Benton County, AR, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 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 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 839 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 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 30, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 8:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Lincoln and 1 more | 96 min |
| Mar 30, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Union | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 11:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chicot, Desha | 60 min |
| Mar 31, 10:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Cleveland, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Dallas and 14 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 10:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chicot | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden, Cross | 91 min |
| Mar 31, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lee, Phillips | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dallas, Greene, Laclede, Lawrence, Newton, Polk and 1 more | 57 min |
| Mar 31, 12:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 84 min |
| Mar 31, 5:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mississippi, Scott | 96 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.