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Mesoscale Discussion 316
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 23, 2017, 8:31 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2017, 8:31 PM MDT (02:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2017, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 67 counties
Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:30 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 894 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1910 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
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 24, 1:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 24, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Dickinson, Elk and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 24, 2:25 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, LeFlore, McCurtain, Sequoyah | 95 min |
| Mar 24, 12:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson and 41 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 24, 5:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, Grimes and 15 more | 57 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.