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Mesoscale Discussion 1507

July 10, 200926 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 10, 2009, 12:44 AM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 2009, 12:44 AM CDT (05:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2009, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 26 counties

Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:48 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 2497 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
Jul 10, 2:28 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Doniphan	62 min
Jul 10, 3:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Wallace and 1 more	88 min
Jul 10, 5:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Butler and 45 more	95 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2009 Every mesoscale discussion in 2009

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.