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Mesoscale Discussion 506
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 16, 2017, 3:02 PM CDT for 6 counties in Oklahoma; 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2017, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2017, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 23 counties
Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, King County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Motley County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 622 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1431 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 15, 7:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward | 85 min |
| Apr 16, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cotton, Jefferson, Love, Marshall, Stephens | 96 min |
| Apr 16, 1:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Crane, Pecos | 119 min |
| Apr 16, 6:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Ector, Gaines, Terry, Winkler, Yoakum | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.