Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2006
Mesoscale Discussion 1502
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 13, 2006, 3:40 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2006, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2006, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Washington County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 1071 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -402 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 2:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Doniphan | 67 min |
| Jul 13, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Edwards and 46 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chase and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 11:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Burt, Butler, Cedar and 26 more | 118 min |
| Jul 13, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Cass and 31 more | 10 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.