Alert archive / Oklahoma / Mesoscale Discussions in 2023
Mesoscale Discussion 5
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 2, 2023, 2:02 PM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 118 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 2023, 2:02 PM CST (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2023, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...tornado watch likely
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 70 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Barry County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McClain County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1122 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 11:34 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 20 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 2, 1:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia, Conway and 39 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 2, 3:19 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Izard and 10 more | 86 min |
| Jan 2, 3:34 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 2, 5:45 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McDonald | 90 min |
| Jan 2, 4:45 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw | 90 min |
| Jan 2, 2:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Harrison, Marion, Panola, Sabine, Shelby | 96 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.