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Mesoscale Discussion 1537
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 9, 2014, 5:57 PM CDT for 22 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2014, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 22 counties
Clark County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 5:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 8 more | 88 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
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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.