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Mesoscale Discussion 1262

June 23, 200716 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 23, 2007, 3:17 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 2007, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2007, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Noble County, OK, Osage County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 135 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, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2007-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1198 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, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2007-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
1198 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 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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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2007Every 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.