Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2007
Mesoscale Discussion 185
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 23, 2007, 11:21 PM CST for 36 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 2007, 11:21 PM CST (05:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2007, 1:15 AM CST
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties
Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Clay County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:24 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1897 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 6:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Kiowa and 2 more | 90 min |
| Feb 23, 6:45 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cloud, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Hodgeman and 18 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 23, 7:35 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Harper, Kingman, Pratt, Sedgwick, Sumner | 85 min |
| Feb 23, 8:29 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 23, 10:31 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 6 more | 119 min |
| Feb 24, 6:49 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Sherman | 4 hr |
| Feb 24, 9:40 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Cowley and 20 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 1:34 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 5 hr |
| Feb 24, 2:33 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Clay, Coffey, Dickinson, Franklin and 9 more | 87 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.