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Mesoscale Discussion 985

May 26, 200620 counties in Kansas; 16 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 26, 2006, 5:31 AM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas; 16 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 2006, 5:31 AM CDT (10:31 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2006, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties

Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:31 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 206 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2006-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 803 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2006-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
803 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
301 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.3

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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 25, 7:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 12 more95 min
May 25, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 18 more7 hr
May 25, 10:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 31 more118 min
May 26, 2:12 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 4 more93 min
May 26, 3:16 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson119 min
May 26, 4:01 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita6 hr
May 26, 4:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFinney, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 4 more96 min
May 26, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDecatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Logan and 10 more5 hr
May 26, 3:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 5 more94 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.