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Mesoscale Discussion 1536

August 9, 201414 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 9, 2014, 5:32 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 88 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 9, 2014, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 88 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 40%

Counties Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Rice County, KS, Saline County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 458Aug 9, 6:50 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 241 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: 216 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -260 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2016 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 11:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jewell, Norton, Phillips, Republic, Smith	87 min
Aug 9, 2:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Lane and 12 more	119 min
Aug 9, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Jewell and 13 more	9 hr
Aug 9, 5:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 16 more	63 min
Aug 9, 6:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 8 more	95 min
Aug 9, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford and 22 more	6 hr

Nearby

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.