Alert archive / Kansas / Mesoscale Discussions in 2014
Mesoscale Discussion 1370
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 14, 2014, 1:10 PM CDT for 40 counties in Kansas; 16 counties in Missouri; 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2014, 1:10 PM CDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2014, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 62 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barber County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Clark County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lane County, KS, Linn County, KS, Meade County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Craig County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 676 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1302 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 14, 10:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Johnson, Miami | 94 min |
| Jul 14, 12:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton and 2 more | 57 min |
| Jul 13, 10:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dent, Howell and 16 more | 86 min |
| Jul 14, 11:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cole and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 12:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, New Madrid, Pemiscot | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 1:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 7 hr |
| Jul 14, 2:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Crawford, Dent, Franklin, Gasconade and 13 more | 54 min |
| Jul 14, 3:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 93 min |
| Jul 14, 5:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Pemiscot | 97 min |
| Jul 14, 3:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 27 more | 88 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 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.