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Mesoscale Discussion 1668

September 3, 201417 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 3, 2014, 12:06 AM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 84 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 3, 2014, 12:06 AM CDT (05:06 UTC)
Expired
Sep 3, 2014, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
84 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%

Counties Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:06 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 219 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2014-09-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1189 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2014-09-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 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
1189 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1409 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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.