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Mesoscale Discussion 157
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 1, 2014, 8:55 PM CST for 21 counties in Kansas; 16 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2014, 8:55 PM CST (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2014, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:57 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 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 825 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 5:32 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Crawford, Dallas, Dent and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:27 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Christian, Douglas, Howell, Lawrence, McDonald and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:44 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.