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Mesoscale Discussion 703
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2016, 10:59 AM CDT for 5 counties in Arkansas; 19 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2016, 10:59 AM CDT (15:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 24 counties
Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Marion County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Barry County, MO, Carter County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Howell County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:02 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 7 hr |
| May 24, 5:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner and 31 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 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.