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Mesoscale Discussion 232
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 24, 2019, 3:28 PM CDT for 44 counties in Arkansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2019, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2019, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 63 counties
Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lawrence 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, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, White County, AR, Yell County, AR, Choctaw County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Collin County, TX, Delta County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Morris County, TX, Red River County, TX, Titus County, TX
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 290 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
- 550 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
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, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 39 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 24, 6:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard, Little River and 11 more | 114 min |
| Mar 23, 8:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Creek and 21 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2019Every mesoscale discussion in 2019
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.