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Mesoscale Discussion 218
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 28, 2007, 3:05 PM CST for 16 counties in Kansas; Bates County, Cass County, Missouri; 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2007, 3:05 PM CST (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2007, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Kay County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1186 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 805 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1061 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 28, 5:07 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 12 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.