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Mesoscale Discussion 1568

July 1, 20055 counties in Kansas; 22 counties in Oklahoma; 5 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 1, 2005, 3:24 AM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; 22 counties in Oklahoma; 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 96 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 2005, 3:24 AM CDT (08:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2005, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
96 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties

Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Harper County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:24 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2005-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1264 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2005-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
1264 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2616 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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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 30, 7:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 2 more83 min
Jun 30, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 14 more8 hr
Jun 30, 10:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Cherokee and 11 more93 min
Jun 30, 11:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGrant, Hamilton, Morton, Seward, Stanton, Stevens118 min
Jul 1, 1:12 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 19 more33 min
Jul 1, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChautauqua, Cherokee, Elk, Labette, Montgomery7 hr
Jul 1, 2:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCowley, Harper, Sumner7 hr
Jul 1, 4:48 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChautauqua, Cherokee, Elk, Labette, Montgomery57 min
Jul 1, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace7 hr
Jul 1, 6:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Finney, Gove and 26 more91 min
Jul 1, 6:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFinney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 7 more90 min
Jul 1, 5:02 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche and 16 more28 min
Jul 1, 5:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtoka, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Coal and 26 more8 hr
Jul 1, 7:31 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Coal, Creek, Garvin, Haskell, Hughes and 16 more59 min
Jul 1, 9:55 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Choctaw, Pushmataha65 min
Jul 1, 2:44 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCimarron2 hr
Jul 1, 12:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Bosque, Brown, Camp, Cherokee, Comanche and 32 more2 hr
Jul 1, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Ector, Gaines and 7 more7 hr
Jul 1, 6:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaylor, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Castro, Coke and 33 more83 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.