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Mesoscale Discussion 548
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 23, 2007, 6:15 PM CDT for 34 counties in Kansas; Jasper County, Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2007, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2007, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Gove County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Jasper County, MO
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 1371 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 435 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 4 more | 103 min |
| Apr 23, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche and 45 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.