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Mesoscale Discussion 2230

October 7, 201115 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 7, 2011, 12:42 AM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Oct 7, 2011, 12:42 AM CDT (05:42 UTC)
Expired
Oct 7, 2011, 2:15 AM CDT
In force
93 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties

Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Trego County, KS, Adams County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:44 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 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2011-10-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 251 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2011-10-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 158 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
251 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1190 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
423 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 6, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more5 hr
Oct 6, 11:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur, Gove, Graham, Lane, Logan, Norton and 4 more97 min
Oct 7, 2:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEllis, Gove, Graham, Lane, Ness, Norton and 4 more96 min
Oct 7, 6:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFinney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 19 more2 hr
Oct 7, 6:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 19 more7 hr
Oct 6, 8:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Cherry, Garden, Grant, Hooker, Logan and 2 more90 min
Oct 7, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Colfax, Custer and 24 more7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.