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Mesoscale Discussion 1822
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 20, 2007, 6:27 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 2007, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2007, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Page County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Worth County, MO, Nemaha County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 1008 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 9:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee and 21 more | 56 min |
| Aug 20, 3:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Fremont, Harrison, Ida, Lyon and 8 more | 117 min |
| Aug 20, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 20, 2:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cloud, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney and 21 more | 117 min |
| Aug 20, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Cloud, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 20, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stevens | 6 hr |
| Aug 20, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 20, 4:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Christian, Dade, Douglas, Greene, Howell and 7 more | 97 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.