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Mesoscale Discussion 1049

May 26, 200825 counties in Kansas; 19 counties in Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 26, 2008, 3:39 PM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas; 19 counties in Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 96 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 2008, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2008, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
96 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2008-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2283 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, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2008-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 326 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
326 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
527 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
27.4

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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 25, 8:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 31 more113 min
May 25, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 32 more3 hr
May 25, 9:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Pratt2 hr
May 25, 11:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 15 more6 hr
May 26, 12:10 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 10 more95 min
May 26, 2:42 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Crawford, Labette93 min
May 26, 1:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 14 more59 min
May 26, 1:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 29 more6 hr
May 26, 6:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 26 more2 hr
May 25, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Creek and 19 more6 hr
May 25, 8:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Brewster, Castro, Crane, Crockett, Culberson and 19 more2 hr
May 26, 1:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Coke, Cottle, Crane, Crosby, Dawson and 22 more95 min
May 26, 2:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Cottle, Crane and 32 more7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2008Every mesoscale discussion in 2008

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.