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Mesoscale Discussion 1472
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 22, 2013, 8:48 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2013, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2013, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Noble County, OK, Woods County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3082 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 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 23, 7:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay and 36 more | 89 min |
| Jul 23, 2:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 26 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
| Jul 23, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 31 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 23, 12:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, LeFlore and 5 more | 87 min |
| Jul 23, 4:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Choctaw, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.