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Mesoscale Discussion 1485
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 3, 2011, 3:00 PM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Oklahoma; Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2011, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2011, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 8:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 10:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 27 more | 29 min |
| Jul 2, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 1:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 19 more | 86 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.