Alert archive / Nebraska / Mesoscale Discussions in 2006
Mesoscale Discussion 1963
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 15, 2006, 1:58 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 21 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 2006, 1:58 PM CDT (18:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2006, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS, Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1112 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rooks, Sheridan | 5 hr |
| Sep 15, 4:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa and 2 more | 117 min |
| Sep 15, 5:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 15, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Butler, Cedar and 33 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.