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Mesoscale Discussion 913
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 12, 2010, 6:32 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2010, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2010, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 1486 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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ACUS11 KWNS 122332
SWOMCD
SPC MCD 122332
KSZ000-OKZ000-TXZ000-130230-
MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0913
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0632 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2010
AREAS AFFECTED...TX/OK PANHANDLES...KS
CONCERNING...HEAVY RAINFALL 304...305...
VALID 122332Z - 130230Z
VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLY EXCEEDING 3 INCHES PER HOUR IN
PLACES...WILL BE NOTED ALONG/JUST NORTH OF FRONTAL ZONE FROM THE NRN
TX PANHANDLE...INTO CNTRL KS.
FRONTAL ZONE IS NEARLY STATIONARY FROM TCC...JUST NORTH OF AMA...SE
OF DCC...TO NW OF SLN. REPETITIVE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS EVOLVED
ALONG AND JUST NORTH OF THIS WIND SHIFT AND HAS SERVED TO ONLY NUDGE
THE BOUNDARY SLIGHTLY SOUTH ACROSS CNTRL KS. PWAT VALUES ARE
APPROACHING 2 INCHES ACROSS SCNTRL KS...WITH VALUES ON THE ORDER OF
1.5 INCHES INTO THE TX PANHANDLE. WITH THE LLJ EXPECTED TO INCREASE
OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS IT APPEARS RENEWED DEVELOPMENT WILL BE
MAINTAINED ALONG SWRN FLANK OF EVOLVING HEAVY RAIN MCS. WITH TIME
THE HEAVIEST RAIN MAY SAG A BIT SEWD ACROSS KS...BUT IT APPEARS THE
WIND SHIFT OVER THE TX PANHANDLE IS LIKELY LOCKED IN PLACE WELL INTO
THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.
..DARROW.. 06/12/2010
...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT...
ATTN...WFO...ICT...OUN...DDC...AMA...
LAT...LON 35820264 37060120 38549959 38749785 38309753 37469950
36240074 35540202 35820264SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 8:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Logan, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 11, 10:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Logan and 8 more | 86 min |
| Jun 12, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jewell, Phillips, Smith | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Jewell, Norton, Phillips, Smith | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 2:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Meade and 1 more | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth, Finney and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 5:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran and 26 more | 66 min |
| Jun 12, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Brewster, Castro, Cochran, Crane and 17 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2010Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2010Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.