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Mesoscale Discussion 997
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 8, 2013, 3:03 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma; 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2013, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2013, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 37 counties
Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Donley 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, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1476 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 3:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 13 more | 89 min |
| Jun 8, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 8, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jewell, Marshall and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Dickinson, Edwards and 15 more | 90 min |
| Jun 8, 5:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell, Nemaha and 6 more | 96 min |
| Jun 7, 7:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 118 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2013Mesoscale 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.