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Mesoscale Discussion 319

March 24, 20175 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 24, 2017, 3:25 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 95 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 24, 2017, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 2017, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
95 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
40%
All 54 counties

Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Clark County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Garland County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Newton County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Bossier Parish, LA, Barry County, MO, Christian County, MO, Greene County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Webster County, MO, Adair County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Cass County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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

Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 261 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2017-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2017-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 234 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
234 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
407 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 1:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDe Soto2 hr
Mar 23, 9:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaver, Cimarron, Ellis, Harmon, Roger Mills, Texas59 min
Mar 24, 2:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCraig, Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Washington2 hr
Mar 24, 6:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, Grimes and 15 more57 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.