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Mesoscale Discussion 1328

July 9, 20148 counties in Kansas; 30 counties in Nebraska; Todd County, South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 9, 2014, 12:59 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas; 30 counties in Nebraska; Todd County, South Dakota. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 2014, 12:59 PM CDT (17:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2014, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
40%
All 39 counties

Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Clay County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, Todd County, SD

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 94 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2014-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2014-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 5:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham and 18 more60 min
Jul 9, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Jewell and 13 more9 hr
Jul 9, 3:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Cheyenne, Deuel, Kimball96 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, 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.