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Mesoscale Discussion 957
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 23, 2006, 7:11 PM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2006, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2006, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Saline County, NE, Seward County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 721 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 23, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 10:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards and 20 more | 114 min |
| May 24, 1:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 18 more | 94 min |
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.