Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2013

Mesoscale Discussion 823

May 27, 201325 counties in Kansas; 22 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 27, 2013, 5:36 PM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas; 22 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 84 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 2013, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
84 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
40%
All 47 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2013-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1447 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2013-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 194 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1447 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-390 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 1:40 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Doniphan95 min
May 27, 3:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Nemaha5 hr
May 27, 6:20 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Nemaha85 min
May 27, 2:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Norton, Rawlins and 4 more60 min
May 27, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman and 3 more6 hr
May 27, 3:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCloud, Decatur, Ellis, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln and 9 more67 min
May 27, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 20 more7 hr
May 27, 5:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Scott, Sherman, Thomas and 2 more94 min
May 27, 6:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis, Geary and 17 more2 hr
May 27, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeckham, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 2 more6 hr
May 27, 6:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCComanche, Cotton, Jackson, Tillman2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale 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.