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Mesoscale Discussion 937

May 31, 20075 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 31, 2007, 2:28 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 2007, 2:28 PM MDT (20:28 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2007, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
92 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 101 counties

Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 67 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 12:00Z on 2007-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 111 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2007-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 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
111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1244 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 31, 11:33 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers87 min
May 31, 12:01 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kiowa and 10 more9 hr
May 31, 2:29 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBaca7 hr
May 31, 4:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Republic and 2 more6 hr
May 31, 5:38 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 27 more97 min
May 31, 5:50 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth, Harper and 14 more6 hr
May 31, 3:56 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Burt, Butler and 31 more94 min
May 30, 6:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 21 more5 hr
May 31, 12:04 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Comanche and 18 more116 min
May 31, 3:45 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAndrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Childress and 21 more6 hr

Nearby

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