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Mesoscale Discussion 1265

June 9, 200532 counties in Kansas; 19 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 9, 2005, 5:28 PM CDT for 32 counties in Kansas; 19 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 2005, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
92 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 51 counties

Barton County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 166 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2005-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2005-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 7:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Bourbon, Butler and 40 more94 min
Jun 8, 8:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 1 more58 min
Jun 8, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Bourbon and 50 more7 hr
Jun 8, 11:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 25 more97 min
Jun 9, 1:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Finney, Gove, Gray, Haskell, Lane and 4 more2 hr
Jun 9, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 29 more9 hr
Jun 9, 5:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell and 6 more5 hr
Jun 9, 3:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Boyd, Brown, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota and 10 more2 hr
Jun 9, 5:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Deuel90 min
Jun 9, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Deuel, Kimball6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2005Every 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.