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Mesoscale Discussion 1355

June 15, 200520 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 15, 2005, 2:50 PM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2005, 2:50 PM CDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2005, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 484Jun 15, 3:05 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 1:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Morton	114 min
Jun 15, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 29 more	8 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.