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Mesoscale Discussion 944

June 1, 20078 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2007, 1:42 AM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2007, 1:42 AM CDT (06:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2007, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Craig County, OK, Kay County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:42 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 213 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 10:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 26 more	86 min
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, 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
May 31, 7:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Greer, Harmon, Jackson	83 min
May 31, 9:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 11 more	53 min
May 31, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 32 more	7 hr
Jun 1, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 14 more	6 hr
Jun 1, 2:24 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Cotton, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson, Stephens and 1 more	66 min
Jun 1, 1:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson and 2 more	60 min
Jun 1, 2:03 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more	7 hr
Jun 1, 5:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Tillman	60 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2007 Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2007 Every 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.