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Mesoscale Discussion 1473
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 14, 2007, 3:27 PM CDT for 33 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2007, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2007, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Saline County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Beaver County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 5:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan | 96 min |
| Jul 14, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Brown, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 43 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 6 hr |
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.