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Mesoscale Discussion 845
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 28, 2013, 7:36 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma; 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2013, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2013, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 3879 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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 28, 7:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 14 more | 113 min |
| May 28, 9:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall and 2 more | 55 min |
| May 29, 11:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche | 2 hr |
| May 29, 12:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 38 more | 11 hr |
| May 29, 12:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins and 4 more | 53 min |
| May 29, 1:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 8 more | 9 hr |
| May 29, 3:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 32 more | 60 min |
| May 29, 3:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Cowley and 24 more | 2 hr |
| May 29, 3:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 6 more | 66 min |
| May 29, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Morris and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 6:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley, Elk and 4 more | 85 min |
| May 29, 2:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Major, Roger Mills and 2 more | 65 min |
| May 29, 2:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Woods, Woodward | 4 hr |
| May 29, 2:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 8 more | 114 min |
| May 29, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 33 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 6:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Creek, Garfield and 19 more | 92 min |
| May 28, 7:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Crockett, Edwards, Gillespie and 17 more | 2 hr |
| May 29, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Coke, Coleman and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 29, 6:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis and 11 more | 84 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.