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Mesoscale Discussion 1629
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 5, 2013, 6:08 PM CDT for 40 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Nebraska; 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 97 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2013, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2013, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 97 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 53 counties
Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Alfalfa County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Woods County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 965 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1336 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 5, 1:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Gove and 19 more | 61 min |
| Aug 5, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 33 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 30 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 5, 6:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock | 91 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 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.