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Mesoscale Discussion 699

May 11, 201762 counties in Arkansas; 20 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 11, 2017, 5:49 PM CDT for 62 counties in Arkansas; 20 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 11, 2017, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 2017, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 82 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Clark County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Cross County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Greene County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Newton County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Pike County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, Barry County, MO, Butler County, MO, Carter County, MO, Christian County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Greene County, MO, Howell County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 182 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2017-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 182 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2017-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 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
182 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-234 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
853 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 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
May 11, 12:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more8 hr
May 11, 1:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Sevier2 hr
May 11, 2:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCColumbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more9 hr
May 11, 2:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 34 more116 min
May 11, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 45 more7 hr
May 11, 6:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Washington83 min

Nearby

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