Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2013
Mesoscale Discussion 1978
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 28, 2013, 8:06 PM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 28, 2013, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2013, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Deaf Smith 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, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 3:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Midland, Pecos, Terrell and 3 more | 87 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 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.