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Mesoscale Discussion 1079
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 5, 2006, 10:42 PM CDT for 52 counties in Kansas; 18 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 93 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2006, 10:42 PM CDT (03:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2006, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 70 counties
Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:44 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 210 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2084 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2020 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 387 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Logan and 11 more | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson and 45 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Chautauqua, Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Sumner | 92 min |
| Jun 6, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Elk and 5 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2006Every mesoscale discussion in 2006
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.