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Mesoscale Discussion 372

March 29, 200713 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 29, 2007, 6:51 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 29, 2007, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired
Mar 29, 2007, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties

Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Trego County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garden County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Thomas County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 175 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2007-03-29Temperature 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2007-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 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
1207 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 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, 9:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 33 more114 min
Mar 28, 11:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 30 more113 min
Mar 28, 11:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 22 more4 hr
Mar 29, 2:03 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Pratt, Reno and 1 more57 min
Mar 28, 9:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArthur, Blaine, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Custer and 16 more5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.