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Mesoscale Discussion 1561
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 29, 2013, 6:03 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas; 24 counties in Missouri; Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 2013, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2013, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 28 counties
Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Ottawa County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 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 29, 2:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Clark and 27 more | 114 min |
| Jul 29, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase and 33 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 29, 5:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase and 30 more | 89 min |
| Jul 29, 5:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greeley, Hamilton, Stanton | 87 min |
| Jul 29, 5:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 116 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2013Mesoscale 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.