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Mesoscale Discussion 793
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 8, 2006, 3:40 PM CDT for 34 counties in Kansas; Harper County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2006, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2006, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Harper County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 640 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 926 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Meade and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 9:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, Meade, Seward | 60 min |
| May 7, 11:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Pratt, Reno and 2 more | 54 min |
| May 8, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Decatur and 42 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 5:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 29 more | 67 min |
| May 8, 10:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 8 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.