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Mesoscale Discussion 982

May 26, 200610 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 26, 2006, 2:12 AM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2006, 2:12 AM CDT (07:12 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2006, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Marion County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Osage County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 1011 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -33 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
May 25, 7:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 12 more	95 min
May 25, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 18 more	7 hr
May 25, 10:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 31 more	118 min
May 26, 3:16 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	119 min
May 26, 5:31 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary, Jewell and 14 more	2 hr
May 26, 4:01 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita	6 hr
May 26, 4:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Finney, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 4 more	96 min
May 26, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Logan and 10 more	5 hr
May 26, 2:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Creek, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 7 more	95 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.