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Mesoscale Discussion 410

April 2, 2007Republic County, Kansas; 44 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 2, 2007, 7:52 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas; 44 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 83 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2007, 7:52 PM CDT (00:52 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2007, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 83 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 45 counties

Republic County, KS, Adams County, NE, Boone County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Gage County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Valley County, NE, Washington County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 105Apr 2, 8:25 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 74 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -377 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1481 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 516 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 11:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall and 3 more	65 min
Apr 3, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha	7 hr
Apr 3, 2:22 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha	53 min
Apr 3, 4:28 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Johnson, Leavenworth, Lyon and 6 more	62 min
Apr 3, 7:17 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Franklin, Johnson, Linn, Miami	88 min
Apr 2, 8:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Douglas	115 min
Apr 2, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler and 32 more	6 hr
Apr 2, 10:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Dodge, Douglas and 12 more	54 min

Nearby

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