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Mesoscale Discussion 1002

June 14, 201414 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 14, 2014, 10:56 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 94 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2014, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2014, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 94 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 80%

Counties Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 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 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 198 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 7:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jewell, Republic, Smith	96 min
Jun 14, 7:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 13 more	95 min
Jun 14, 8:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Decatur, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas	84 min
Jun 14, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 25 more	6 hr
Jun 14, 9:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jewell, Phillips, Smith	96 min
Jun 14, 11:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cloud, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell, Republic, Washington	53 min
Jun 14, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Ellsworth and 12 more	5 hr
Jun 14, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 13 more	5 hr
Jun 15, 12:37 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Butler, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Harper and 8 more	83 min
Jun 15, 1:10 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 34 more	95 min
Jun 15, 1:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 7 more	4 hr
Jun 15, 2:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 8 more	93 min
Jun 15, 3:00 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 7 more	90 min
Jun 15, 4:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Crawford, Labette	93 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014 Every mesoscale discussion in 2014

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.