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Mesoscale Discussion 704
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 19, 2013, 4:57 PM CDT for 28 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2013, 4:57 PM CDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2013, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1206 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jewell, Marshall and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 18, 7:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Comanche, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellsworth and 15 more | 65 min |
| May 18, 10:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 14 more | 30 min |
| May 18, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 11 more | 3 hr |
| May 18, 11:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Geary, Marshall, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley and 1 more | 35 min |
| May 19, 5:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 2 more | 2 hr |
| May 19, 12:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 41 more | 114 min |
| May 19, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Brown, Butler and 53 more | 10 hr |
| May 19, 5:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford | 66 min |
| May 19, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 9 hr |
| May 19, 6:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 63 min |
Nearby
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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.