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Mesoscale Discussion 1616

July 3, 200521 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 3, 2005, 12:11 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 2005, 12:11 PM CDT (17:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2005, 1:15 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 26 counties

Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks 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, Dundy County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:12 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.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -681 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 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
Jul 3, 4:32 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 4 more	118 min
Jul 3, 7:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham and 19 more	66 min
Jul 3, 7:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 15 more	5 hr
Jul 3, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney and 29 more	8 hr
Jul 3, 1:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Grant and 13 more	84 min
Jul 3, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Comanche and 34 more	6 hr
Jul 3, 5:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Coffey and 14 more	118 min
Jul 3, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 12 more	6 hr
Jul 3, 6:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, McPherson and 5 more	53 min
Jul 3, 5:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buffalo, Chase, Cheyenne, Dawson, Deuel, Dundy and 14 more	113 min

Nearby

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