MCS1_CELLTIME = 2145 MCS1_CELLLOC = (30 ENE LBL,45 NNW GAG,45 NNE GAG) MCS1_GENTIME = 0000 MCS1_GENLOC = (45 NNW GAG,35 N GAG,35 NNE GAG,30 W AVK,25 NW AVK) MCS1_DISTIME = 1543 MCS1_DISLOC = (25 W ESF,5 S ESF,10 E ESF,30 E ESF,20 WSW HEZ) MCS1_HRLYDOC = (0000,40 NNE GAG,310,17) (0100,25 WSW AVK,305,21) (0201,25 SW AVK,325,26) (0301,30 SW END,330,36) (0401,15 WNW OKC,305,31) (0501,25 SSE OKC,300,31) (0601,45 S CQB,310,33) (0702,30 N DUA,295,33) (0757,40 ENE DUA,300,41) (0857,30 NE PRX,290,41) (0957,25 S DEQ,305,48) (1057,30 ESE TXK,305,33) (1157,20 SW ELD,315,35) (1258,35 2 MLU,310,31) (1358,35 N ESF,315,28) (1458,20 NE ESF,320,22) MCS1_COMMENTS = ...20050617/VIRTS... INITIAL CELLS FORMED IN FAR NW OK/SW KS. APPROX 45 MINUTES AFTER FORMING...OR AROUND 2230Z...MAIN CLUSTER SPLIT. LEFT-MOVING CELLS MOVED NE AND EVENTUALLY DISSIPATED OVER CENTRAL KS...WHILE RIGHT-MOVING CELLS BECAME BOW ECHO-TYPE MCS IN NW OK BY 00Z. AT TIME OF GENESIS...ADDITIONAL CELLS WERE LOCATED NW OF MCS. THESE MOVED QUICKLY TO THE SE AND MERGED WITH THE LINE BY 02Z. BTWN 00-02Z...MODERATE TRAILING STRATIFORM DEVELOPED. BTWN 02-05Z...MCS HAD BOWING SECTIONS WEST AND EAST OF ITS CENTRAL POINT. FROM 03-06Z...MCS ACCELERATED SEWRD. TWIN BOW ECHO SHAPE BECAME MORE PRONOUNCED...AND ADDITIONAL CELLS FORMED AT EACH END OF MCS AND MERGED WITH THE MAIN LINE. FROM 07-11Z...MCS UNDERWENT WEAKENING AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE. BTWN 06-07Z...SEVERAL CELLS FORMED IN FRONT OF NRN BOW ECHO AND MERGED WITH IT. NRN BOW ECHO SPLIT...WITH FAR NRN PORTION DISSIPATING. TRAILING STRATIFORM BEHIND SWERN PORTION OF THE LINE DIED OUT BY 08Z. BTWN 08-10Z...ADDITIONAL CELLS FORMED IN FRONT OF NRN PORTION OF THE LINE AND MERGED WITH IT...RESULTING IN AN UPSIDE-DOWN V-SHAPE AS THE MCS MOVED INTO THE AR/LA/TX AREA. DURING THIS PERIOD...THE SYSTEM BARELY RETAINED MCS STATUS. AFTER 10Z...MIDDLE PORTION OF MCS ACCELERATED SEWRD. MCS WAS A SOLID SSW-NNE LINE BY 11Z...WITH EXTENSIVE STRATIFORM PRECIP TO THE NORTH OF THE LINE. FROM 11Z ONWARD...MCS TOOK A SSE ROUTE OVER LA. MUCH OF THE NRN STRATIFORM PRECIP HAD DISSIPATED BY 14Z...LEAVING ONLY SLIGHT TRAILING STRATIFORM. BTWN 14-16Z...MCS DEVELOPED A SLIGHT BOWING SHAPE ONCE MORE. DISSIPATION INTO CLUSTERS OF CELLS OCCURRED 15-16Z AS THE LINE REACHED SRN LA.