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Mesoscale Discussion 361

March 28, 20076 counties in Colorado; 37 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 28, 2007, 2:29 PM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado; 37 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 91 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 2007, 2:29 PM MDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 2007, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
91 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties

Baca County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2007-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2007-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 334 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1168 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
334 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
293 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 1:33 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCPhillips, Sedgwick7 hr
Mar 28, 5:10 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCPhillips, Sedgwick, Yuma2 hr
Mar 28, 2:59 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 25 more8 hr
Mar 28, 1:04 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 6 more116 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.