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Mesoscale Discussion 392
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 7, 2013, 6:10 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2013, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2013, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Allen County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Polk County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2207 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 1:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 15 more | 118 min |
| Apr 7, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Ford, Hodgeman and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 7, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 27 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 7, 6:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Clay, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Jackson and 12 more | 53 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 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.