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Mesoscale Discussion 1271
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 27, 2013, 3:37 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 83 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2013, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2013, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 127 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lane County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Miami County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Alfalfa County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Woods County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 3630 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1189 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 4:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jewell, Marshall, Republic, Washington | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 8:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 24 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 27, 11:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Bourbon, Brown and 48 more | 115 min |
| Jun 27, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 66 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 31 more | 96 min |
| Jun 27, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 16 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2013Every mesoscale discussion in 2013
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.