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Mesoscale Discussion 1138

June 23, 2017Crawford County, Sebastian County, Arkansas; 14 counties in Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 23, 2017, 3:32 PM CDT for Crawford County, Sebastian County, Arkansas; 14 counties in Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 2017, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2017, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
40%
All 36 counties

Crawford County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Montague County, TX, Morris County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Titus County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 183 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2017-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 540 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2017-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
540 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-371 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1338 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 8:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChicot63 min
Jun 23, 12:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 37 more2 hr
Jun 23, 2:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 51 more6 hr
Jun 23, 4:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner and 20 more85 min
Jun 23, 3:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Borden, Dawson, Fisher, Gaines, Garza and 10 more3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2017Every mesoscale discussion in 2017

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.