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Mesoscale Discussion 2042
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 30, 2007, 12:10 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 30, 2007, 12:10 PM CDT (17:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 2007, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 76 counties
Adams County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Worth County, MO, Cass County, NE, Gage County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Kay County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:10 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 (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 1355 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 10:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cerro Gordo and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 30, 1:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 47 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 30, 2:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Iowa, Jasper and 16 more | 64 min |
| Sep 30, 3:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Harrison, Ida, Lyon, Monona and 6 more | 54 min |
| Sep 30, 5:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee and 26 more | 60 min |
| Sep 29, 9:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan and 8 more | 89 min |
| Sep 29, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gove, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rooks, Sheridan | 3 hr |
| Sep 30, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 35 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 30, 6:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette | 92 min |
| Sep 30, 2:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, McDonald, Newton, Stone | 67 min |
| Sep 30, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barry, McDonald, Stone, Taney | 6 hr |
| Sep 30, 11:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Buffalo, Butler and 32 more | 59 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 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.