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Mesoscale Discussion 1297
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 7, 2014, 2:19 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado; 21 counties in Kansas; 20 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2014, 2:19 PM MDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2014, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 42 counties
Kit Carson County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Chase County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 2201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:00 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Fillmore, Hall, Hamilton and 4 more | 90 min |
| Jul 7, 2:53 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Hooker, Thomas | 97 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2014Every 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.