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Mesoscale Discussion 970
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 22, 2008, 1:29 PM CDT for 22 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma; 11 counties in Texas. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2008, 1:29 PM CDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2008, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Motley County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 1191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1232 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 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 21, 7:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stanton and 1 more | 118 min |
| May 22, 3:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 12 more | 97 min |
| May 22, 1:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 33 more | 10 hr |
| May 22, 4:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 31 more | 58 min |
| May 22, 6:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 35 more | 59 min |
| May 22, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 5:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha, Sequoyah | 57 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.