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Mesoscale Discussion 1601
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 2, 2013, 6:59 PM CDT for 38 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Missouri; 10 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2013, 6:59 PM CDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2013, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 53 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Clark County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford 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, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Jasper County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 396 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 527 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 11.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 8:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gove, Greeley, Lane, Logan, Scott, Wichita | 53 min |
| Aug 1, 9:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Jackson, Jefferson, Jewell, Marshall and 6 more | 88 min |
| Aug 1, 11:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne and 4 more | 88 min |
| Aug 2, 2:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 56 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.