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Mesoscale Discussion 1220
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2011, 4:25 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2011, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2011, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 1159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -436 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan | 97 min |
| Jun 13, 9:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne | 91 min |
| Jun 14, 1:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins | 115 min |
| Jun 14, 3:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Creek and 24 more | 84 min |
| Jun 14, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 42 more | 8 hr |
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.