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Mesoscale Discussion 874

May 29, 201914 counties in Arkansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 29, 2019, 3:11 AM CDT for 14 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 94 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 2019, 3:11 AM CDT (08:11 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2019, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 94 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Pope County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 129 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1084 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1074 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 1:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 14 more	113 min
May 29, 1:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington	3 hr
May 29, 3:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Fulton, Independence and 13 more	5 hr
May 29, 6:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett	2 hr
May 29, 9:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Washington	65 min
May 29, 10:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more	7 hr
May 29, 12:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Franklin, Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard and 13 more	87 min
May 29, 12:46 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford and 32 more	9 hr
May 29, 1:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Washington	58 min
May 29, 3:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford and 29 more	63 min
May 29, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas, Faulkner and 22 more	7 hr

Nearby

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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.