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Mesoscale Discussion 1464

July 12, 20074 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 12, 2007, 7:29 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 91 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 12, 2007, 7:29 PM MDT (01:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 2007, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
91 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 68 counties

Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Barton County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 2007-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2723 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 2007-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2723 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1249 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
6.7

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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
Jul 13, 3:34 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick116 min
Jul 12, 9:51 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Edwards, Gove, Hodgeman, Kiowa, Lane and 11 more84 min
Jul 12, 9:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 28 more3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.