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Mesoscale Discussion 708
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 5, 2007, 3:26 PM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma; 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2007, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2007, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ford County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 3496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 292 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.3
- Supercell composite
- 22.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 ACUS11 KWNS 052026 SWOMCD SPC MCD 052026 KSZ000-OKZ000-TXZ000-052200- MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0708 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0326 PM CDT SAT MAY 05 2007 AREAS AFFECTED...ERN TX PNHDL...WRN OK CONCERNING...TORNADO WATCH 234... VALID 052026Z - 052200Z THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR TORNADO WATCH 234 CONTINUES. LEADING EDGE OF 700 MB COOLING...ASSOCIATED WITH IMPULSE PIVOTING ACROSS THE NORTH CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS...HAS SLOWED EASTWARD PROGRESS ACROSS THE SOUTH CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. AND...FLOW FIELDS APPEAR LIKELY TO BEGIN TO GRADUALLY BACK LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AHEAD OF IMPULSE STILL DIGGING INTO THE SOUTHERN PLATEAU. ANOTHER IMPULSE MAY BE IN THE PROCESS OF LIFTING NORTH NORTHEAST OF THE FOUR CORNERS REGION...AND COULD AID RENEWED CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT ALONG DRY LINE ACROSS PARTS OF WESTERN KANSAS...SOUTHWARD THROUGH PARTS OF NORTHWEST TEXAS BY 06/00Z. DRY LINE MAY ALREADY BE RETREATING WEST OF DODGE CITY/HILL CITY KS...AND SOME RETREAT WESTWARD ACROSS THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA/TEXAS BORDER AREA COULD OCCUR PRIOR TO EARLY EVENING. GIVEN..WEAKLY CAPPED MOIST BOUNDARY LAYER WITH CAPE TO 3000 J/KG...RISK FOR AT LEAST ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED TORNADIC SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT WILL PERSIST LATE THIS AFTERNOON IN STRONGLY SHEARED FLOW REGIME ..KERR.. 05/05/2007 ...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT... ATTN...WFO...ICT...OUN...GID...DDC...GLD...LUB...AMA... 34220094 35110070 35730046 36810057 37840043 39910001 39649817 37469884 35369938 33979942 33620008
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 5 more | 7 hr |
| May 4, 8:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 6 more | 84 min |
| May 4, 8:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Sherman | 91 min |
| May 4, 9:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks and 2 more | 94 min |
| May 4, 10:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Marion, Marshall, Morris and 2 more | 56 min |
| May 4, 11:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 12 more | 95 min |
| May 4, 11:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace | 92 min |
| May 5, 1:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth and 15 more | 67 min |
| May 5, 1:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln and 10 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 3:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Jewell and 12 more | 90 min |
| May 5, 6:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Republic, Washington | 61 min |
| May 5, 8:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Decatur and 40 more | 53 min |
| May 5, 9:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove and 21 more | 12 hr |
| May 5, 11:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Norton, Phillips, Smith | 88 min |
| May 5, 11:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman and 3 more | 93 min |
| May 5, 12:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 16 more | 10 hr |
| May 5, 2:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Morris and 5 more | 28 min |
| May 5, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 6:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards and 14 more | 59 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.