Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2007
Mesoscale Discussion 580
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 25, 2007, 5:55 AM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 2007, 5:55 AM CDT (10:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2007, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Osage County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:57 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2958 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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 24, 7:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 97 min |
| Apr 25, 9:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Chautauqua, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 2 more | 87 min |
| Apr 25, 12:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 6 more | 60 min |
| Apr 25, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 24, 7:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McCurtain | 117 min |
| Apr 24, 10:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.