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Mesoscale Discussion 2473

November 27, 200516 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 27, 2005, 1:37 PM CST for 16 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Nov 27, 2005, 1:37 PM CST (19:37 UTC)
Expired
Nov 27, 2005, 5:30 PM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties

Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2005-11-27Temperature 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 2005-11-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2099 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
144 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
Nov 27, 11:58 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Labette and 5 more2 hr
Nov 27, 12:36 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 35 more7 hr
Nov 27, 2:50 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 36 more115 min
Nov 27, 3:05 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Nemaha and 1 more7 hr
Nov 27, 5:58 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Leavenworth, Wyandotte92 min
Nov 27, 3:29 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCass, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson and 1 more2 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.