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Mesoscale Discussion 1114

June 22, 2014Decatur County, Ringgold County, Wayne County, Iowa; 16 counties in Kansas; 24 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 22, 2014, 12:24 PM CDT for Decatur County, Ringgold County, Wayne County, Iowa; 16 counties in Kansas; 24 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2014, 12:24 PM CDT (17:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2014, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 40%

All 43 counties

Decatur County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 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 (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 407 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -175 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 21, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cherokee, Ida, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and 2 more	6 hr
Jun 21, 11:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth and 7 more	93 min
Jun 22, 11:19 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 38 more	101 min
Jun 22, 11:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allamakee, Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clayton, Clinton and 19 more	7 hr
Jun 22, 2:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allamakee, Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clayton, Clinton and 18 more	60 min
Jun 22, 5:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Des Moines, Lee	92 min
Jun 22, 2:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Edwards, Ellis and 23 more	63 min
Jun 22, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 41 more	6 hr
Jun 22, 6:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Grant, Gray and 7 more	95 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 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.