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Mesoscale Discussion 400
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 16, 2016, 8:27 PM CDT for Beaver County, Oklahoma; 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2016, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2016, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Beaver County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 310 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
- 120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 10:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more | 117 min |
| Apr 17, 1:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more | 58 min |
| Apr 16, 7:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Coke, Concho, Crockett, Fisher, Glasscock and 18 more | 93 min |
| Apr 16, 10:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 20 more | 92 min |
| Apr 16, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 17, 2:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Eastland and 17 more | 59 min |
| Apr 17, 7:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Burnet, Coryell, Falls, Hamilton and 3 more | 87 min |
| Apr 17, 2:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal and 8 more | 88 min |
| Apr 17, 5:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Frio, Gillespie, Kendall and 1 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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.