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Mesoscale Discussion 839

June 7, 20105 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 7, 2010, 7:27 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 2010, 7:27 AM CDT (12:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2010, 8:30 AM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties

Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR, Barber County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pratt County, KS, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Adair County, OK, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:26 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 261 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2010-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 226 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2010-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 173 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
226 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-328 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1160 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
352 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
11.7

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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
Jun 6, 9:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more87 min
Jun 6, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more4 hr
Jun 6, 11:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 13 more91 min
Jun 7, 12:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 20 more7 hr
Jun 7, 2:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney and 14 more96 min
Jun 7, 3:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 7 more7 hr
Jun 7, 5:08 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Elk, Meade and 3 more2 hr
Jun 7, 9:07 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Harvey, Kingman, Lincoln and 15 more83 min
Jun 7, 10:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 3 more3 hr
Jun 7, 1:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 3 more67 min
Jun 6, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCimarron7 hr
Jun 6, 9:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCimarron91 min
Jun 6, 11:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCimarron97 min
Jun 7, 3:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCimarron2 hr
Jun 7, 5:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Ector, Loving, Reeves, Ward, Winkler and 1 more88 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2010Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2010Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, 2010Every mesoscale discussion in 2010

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.