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Mesoscale Discussion 726
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 25, 2008, 6:38 AM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas; 22 counties in Missouri; 20 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 2008, 6:38 AM CDT (11:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2008, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 65 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Clay County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Kay County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:41 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 2499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 421 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 15.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 8:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 6 more | 95 min |
| Apr 24, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 24, 11:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 14 more | 65 min |
| Apr 25, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Doniphan | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 12:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 8 more | 35 min |
| Apr 25, 1:13 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 6 more | 57 min |
| Apr 25, 5:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson | 36 min |
| Apr 25, 2:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison and 3 more | 66 min |
| Apr 25, 4:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Clark, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy and 11 more | 23 min |
| Apr 25, 4:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Clark, Knox, Lewis and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 25, 12:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Cooper and 14 more | 54 min |
| Apr 25, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Cole, Crawford and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 2:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Camden, Christian, Dallas, Dent, Douglas and 13 more | 90 min |
| Apr 25, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark | 4 hr |
| Apr 25, 6:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Carter, Oregon, Reynolds, Ripley, Shannon and 1 more | 65 min |
| Apr 25, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McCurtain | 55 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.