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Mesoscale Discussion 183

March 7, 200616 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 7, 2006, 5:49 PM CST for 16 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 86 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 7, 2006, 5:49 PM CST (23:49 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2006, 7:15 PM CST
In force: 86 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Kay County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 38Mar 7, 7:35 PM CST

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 395 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 585 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
Mar 7, 10:23 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	2 hr
Mar 7, 5:16 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Douglas, Jefferson, Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	119 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2006 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2006 Every 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.