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Mesoscale Discussion 861
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 22, 2007, 5:36 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Crowley County, Kiowa County, Colorado; 20 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 84 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2007, 5:36 PM MDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2007, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Buffalo County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 735 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 12:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 3 more | 2 hr |
| May 22, 2:04 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 8 hr |
| May 22, 1:26 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Lane, Logan and 11 more | 2 hr |
| May 22, 1:08 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha | 2 hr |
| May 22, 1:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Garfield, Holt and 8 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.