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Mesoscale Discussion 1596
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 12, 2011, 4:33 PM CDT for 45 counties in Kansas; 32 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 2011, 4:33 PM CDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2011, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 77 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Osage County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1505 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2048 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 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 12, 1:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Clark, Franklin, Jefferson, Knox, Lewis and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 12, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Chariton, Clark and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 12, 3:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson, Lincoln, Marion, Pike, Ralls, Saint Charles and 2 more | 87 min |
| Jul 12, 6:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Chariton, Franklin, Howard and 16 more | 62 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.