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Mesoscale Discussion 1665
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 7, 2013, 11:30 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 14 counties in Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2013, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2013, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Meade County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:32 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1037 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1270 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
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 7, 8:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 9 more | 89 min |
| Aug 7, 9:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman and 4 more | 88 min |
| Aug 7, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Harper and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley and 15 more | 87 min |
| Aug 8, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 12 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Cimarron, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 2 more | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Cimarron, Custer, Dewey, Greer and 7 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 30 more | 88 min |
| Aug 8, 5:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 1 more | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 22 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Cimarron, Custer, Dewey, Greer and 7 more | 88 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.