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Mesoscale Discussion 717

May 5, 20074 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 5, 2007, 11:24 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 2007, 11:24 PM CDT (04:24 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 2007, 12:30 AM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Furnas County, NE, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Briscoe County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2007-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 981 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2007-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
981 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1826 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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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
May 5, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Doniphan9 hr
May 5, 8:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 18 more57 min
May 5, 9:08 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAnderson, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 64 more7 hr
May 6, 1:50 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler and 48 more85 min
May 6, 7:10 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCoffey, Franklin, Johnson, Wyandotte95 min
May 6, 9:19 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 8 more5 hr
May 6, 11:41 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 36 more94 min
May 6, 1:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark58 min
May 6, 1:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 25 more8 hr
May 6, 5:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 28 more67 min
May 6, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 18 more7 hr
May 5, 7:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoyd, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Holt, Keya Paha and 1 more94 min
May 5, 9:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown and 60 more6 hr
May 5, 7:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCTillman56 min
May 5, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCComanche, Jackson, Tillman7 hr
May 5, 9:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey and 12 more7 hr
May 6, 3:37 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 9 more53 min
May 6, 7:50 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Greer, Harmon and 4 more85 min
May 6, 2:36 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 23 more7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.