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Mesoscale Discussion 1194

June 29, 201424 counties in Kansas; 27 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 29, 2014, 6:38 AM CDT for 24 counties in Kansas; 27 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 97 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2014, 6:38 AM CDT (11:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2014, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 97 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

All 51 counties

Barton County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Chase County, NE, Clay County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:39 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 94 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2313 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 29, 1:33 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Hodgeman and 12 more	87 min
Jun 29, 6:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more	84 min
Jun 29, 6:46 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 8 more	5 hr
Jun 29, 2:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler and 52 more	118 min
Jun 29, 4:04 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass and 35 more	7 hr
Jun 29, 5:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dixon	91 min
Jun 29, 6:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax and 22 more	84 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2014 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.