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Mesoscale Discussion 2247

November 30, 200613 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 30, 2006, 11:17 AM CST for 13 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 30, 2006, 11:17 AM CST (17:17 UTC)
Expired: Nov 30, 2006, 3:15 PM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 26 counties

Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Washington County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:16 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 nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 74 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: 1413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 95 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 665 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
Nov 29, 6:12 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho	5 hr
Nov 30, 2:43 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 1 more	6 hr
Nov 30, 4:28 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 15 more	5 hr
Nov 29, 6:33 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Choctaw, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha	57 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.