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Mesoscale Discussion 398
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 16, 2016, 6:52 PM CDT for 7 counties in Oklahoma; 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2016, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2016, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
Counties Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Knox County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 363 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 9:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 83 min |
| Apr 15, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 7 hr |
| Apr 15, 11:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 113 min |
| Apr 16, 2:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 53 min |
| Apr 16, 1:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 85 min |
| Apr 16, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 9 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Crockett, Fisher, Glasscock, Howard, Irion and 6 more | 67 min |
| Apr 16, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crane and 25 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.