Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2007
Mesoscale Discussion 942
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 31, 2007, 10:04 PM CDT for 32 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 86 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2007, 10:04 PM CDT (03:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2007, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barton County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 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 31, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 1, 12:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 19 more | 116 min |
| Jun 1, 1:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford and 7 more | 87 min |
| Jun 1, 5:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 4:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley and 7 more | 67 min |
| Jun 1, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 8 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.