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Mesoscale Discussion 937
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.
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 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.
- 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
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 31, 11:33 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers | 87 min |
| May 31, 12:01 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kiowa and 10 more | 9 hr |
| May 31, 2:29 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca | 7 hr |
| May 31, 4:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Republic and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 5:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 27 more | 97 min |
| May 31, 5:50 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth, Harper and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 3:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Burt, Butler and 31 more | 94 min |
| May 30, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 21 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 12:04 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Comanche and 18 more | 116 min |
| May 31, 3:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Childress and 21 more | 6 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.