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Mesoscale Discussion 1592
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 25, 2012, 7:21 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 2012, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2012, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Cass County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS, Atchison County, MO, Cass County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Sarpy County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1750 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2262 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 25, 7:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 25 more | 85 min |
| Jul 25, 8:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware and 17 more | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 25, 11:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones, Scott | 86 min |
| Jul 26, 1:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Christian, Crawford and 27 more | 65 min |
| Jul 26, 1:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barry, Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Christian and 26 more | 10 hr |
| Jul 26, 3:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Christian, Dent and 23 more | 35 min |
| Jul 26, 5:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 33 min |
| Jul 26, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 6 hr |
| Jul 26, 6:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott and 1 more | 61 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 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.