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Mesoscale Discussion 1132

June 13, 200723 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 13, 2007, 2:30 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2007, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2007, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 33 counties

Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 1026 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 881 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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
Jun 13, 12:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell and 3 more	2 hr
Jun 13, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 12 more	8 hr
Jun 13, 5:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 11 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2007 Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2007 Every mesoscale discussion in 2007

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.