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Mesoscale Discussion 1011

June 6, 202611 counties in Arkansas; Adair County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 6, 2026, 7:58 PM CDT for 11 counties in Arkansas; Adair County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2026, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2026, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...watch unlikely
Chance of a watch: 5%

Counties Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Adair County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 1:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 27 more	119 min
Jun 7, 2:31 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Marion, Newton, Searcy	7 hr
Jun 7, 3:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Faulkner and 16 more	92 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2026 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2026 Every mesoscale discussion in 2026

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.