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Mesoscale Discussion 901

June 26, 2018Crittenden County, Cross County, Arkansas; Butler County, Logan County, Todd County, Kentucky; 22 counties in Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 26, 2018, 10:06 PM CDT for Crittenden County, Cross County, Arkansas; Butler County, Logan County, Todd County, Kentucky; 22 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 84 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 2018, 10:06 PM CDT (03:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2018, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
84 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties

Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Butler County, KY, Logan County, KY, Todd County, KY, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Perry County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 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 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 00:00Z on 2018-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 831 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 00:00Z on 2018-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
831 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 7:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Independence and 6 more2 hr
Jun 27, 1:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Craighead, Crittenden, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi and 2 more93 min
Jun 27, 1:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Barren, Clinton, Cumberland, Edmonson, Metcalfe and 3 more3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2018Every mesoscale discussion in 2018

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.