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Mesoscale Discussion 528
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 4, 2020, 9:00 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2020, 9:00 AM CDT (14:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2020, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 78 counties
Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Washington County, AR, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Adair County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:04 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 2076 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 10:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Fulton and 12 more | 97 min |
| May 4, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 1:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard and 8 more | 86 min |
| May 4, 1:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton | 114 min |
| May 4, 2:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett | 118 min |
| May 4, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 9 hr |
| May 4, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett | 6 hr |
| May 4, 3:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Greene, Mississippi, Randolph | 61 min |
| May 4, 6:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mississippi | 54 min |
| May 4, 6:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 6 more | 2 hr |
| May 4, 1:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins and 5 more | 3 hr |
| May 4, 5:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Cherokee and 38 more | 55 min |
| May 4, 6:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Bourbon, Brown and 49 more | 12 hr |
| May 4, 3:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cleveland, Garvin, Jefferson, Johnston, Lincoln and 11 more | 119 min |
| May 4, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Garvin, Jefferson and 7 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 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.