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Mesoscale Discussion 1569

July 23, 200729 counties in Kansas; 25 counties in Nebraska; 11 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 23, 2007, 11:41 AM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas; 25 counties in Nebraska; 11 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 94 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 2007, 11:41 AM CDT (16:41 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2007, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
94 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 65 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Boone County, NE, Butler County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Howard County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Saline County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Woods County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2007-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1509 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2007-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
1509 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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.