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Mesoscale Discussion 203
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 19, 2020, 11:05 AM CDT for 6 states. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2020, 11:05 AM CDT (16:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2020, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 81 counties
Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Pope County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Union County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Hickman County, KY, McCracken County, KY, Barry County, MO, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Christian County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Madison County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Perry County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott 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, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Dyer County, TN, Lake County, TN, Obion County, TN
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:05 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard, Little River, Logan and 9 more | 62 min |
| Mar 19, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 48 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Randolph | 65 min |
| Mar 19, 6:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Polk, Pope and 3 more | 84 min |
| Mar 19, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 2:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Mercer and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, McClain, Murray, Oklahoma and 4 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2020Every mesoscale discussion in 2020
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.