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Mesoscale Discussion 1589

July 25, 201235 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Oklahoma; 12 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 25, 2012, 4:48 PM CDT for 35 counties in Kansas; 8 counties in Oklahoma; 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 2012, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 2012, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%
All 55 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clark County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ford County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Carson County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 144 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, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2012-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 354 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, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2012-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
354 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-279 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 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
Jul 25, 2:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Logan, Norton and 9 more113 min
Jul 25, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell, Nemaha and 7 more7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2012Every mesoscale discussion in 2012

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.