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Mesoscale Discussion 1518
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 5, 2011, 9:41 PM MDT for Phillips County, Yuma County, Colorado; 39 counties in Kansas; 20 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2011, 9:41 PM MDT (03:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2011, 11:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties
Phillips County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Chase County, KS, Cheyenne County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Chase County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:43 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 3401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1292 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 20.4
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 5, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 21 more | 67 min |
| Jul 6, 2:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert and 14 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:16 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso, Kiowa and 11 more | 119 min |
| Jul 5, 6:07 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Cheyenne, Clay, Cloud, Decatur and 26 more | 113 min |
| Jul 5, 7:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Butler, Chase, Clay and 28 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.