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Mesoscale Discussion 952

May 23, 200628 counties in Kansas; 20 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 23, 2006, 3:00 PM CDT for 28 counties in Kansas; 20 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 2006, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2006, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties

Barton County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 211 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2006-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2006-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -95 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2285 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 9:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Finney, Gove, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton and 14 more53 min
May 22, 10:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Logan, Morton, Rawlins and 5 more6 hr
May 22, 11:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan and 7 more88 min
May 23, 2:05 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace85 min
May 23, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary, Jewell and 13 more5 hr
May 22, 9:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 4 more97 min
May 23, 12:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Buffalo, Butler and 36 more93 min
May 23, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAntelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Butler and 22 more7 hr
May 23, 5:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Boone, Butler, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 17 more2 hr
May 23, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDakota, Dixon6 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.