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Mesoscale Discussion 1
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 31, 2021, 9:08 PM CST for 30 counties in Arkansas; 4 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 31, 2021, 9:08 PM CST (03:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 31, 2021, 11:45 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch possible
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 38 counties
Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Cross County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Greene County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Logan County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Perry County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, Choctaw County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Delta County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Red River County, TX
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 683 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 10:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Hot Spring and 26 more | 353 days |
| Dec 31, 11:57 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Cross, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett | 7 hr |
| Jan 1, 2:07 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleburne, Craighead, Cross, Greene, Independence, Jackson and 4 more | 113 min |
| Jan 1, 11:37 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 5 more | 113 min |
| Jan 1, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 9 more | 9 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2022Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2022Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2022Every mesoscale discussion in 2022
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.