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Mesoscale Discussion 1192

June 6, 200519 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 6, 2005, 2:16 AM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 89 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2005, 2:16 AM CDT (07:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2005, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 89 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 32 counties

Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Craig County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:16 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 nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 2883 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 2:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more	113 min
Jun 6, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 6 more	8 hr
Jun 6, 5:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Logan and 12 more	92 min
Jun 5, 7:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 3 more	94 min
Jun 5, 10:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 8 more	94 min
Jun 5, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Jefferson and 6 more	4 hr
Jun 6, 12:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, LeFlore, Sequoyah	2 hr
Jun 6, 2:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cimarron	55 min
Jun 6, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cimarron, Texas	7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2005 Every mesoscale discussion in 2005

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.