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Mesoscale Discussion 1016
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 29, 2011, 3:10 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Oklahoma; 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 95 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2011, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2011, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Beckham County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -999 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 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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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 9:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greeley | 2 hr |
| May 29, 1:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary and 13 more | 2 hr |
| May 29, 4:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Brown, Clark, Clay, Cloud and 34 more | 24 min |
| May 29, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 23 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 6:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 29 more | 115 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2011Every mesoscale discussion in 2011
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.