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Mesoscale Discussion 447
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 11, 2022, 2:34 PM CDT for 29 counties in Arkansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma; 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 2022, 2:34 PM CDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2022, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch likely
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 43 counties
Clark County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Yell County, AR, Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Delta County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Red River County, TX, Titus County, TX
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 470 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 1:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton | 92 min |
| Apr 11, 12:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Fulton, Madison and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 11, 12:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett, St. Francis | 96 min |
| Apr 11, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 11, 5:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Conway, Faulkner, Logan, Pope | 113 min |
| Apr 11, 6:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Garland, Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Montgomery and 6 more | 89 min |
| Apr 10, 8:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Craig, Creek, Garfield, Kay, Kingfisher and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 10, 11:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Logan and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Johnston, Marshall, Pushmataha | 89 min |
| Apr 11, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Johnston, Marshall | 4 hr |
| Apr 10, 8:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bexar, Karnes, Live Oak, McMullen, Medina and 1 more | 60 min |
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.