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Mesoscale Discussion 1697
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 9, 2014, 2:36 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; 5 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 2014, 2:36 PM MDT (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 2014, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 332 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
- 786 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 7 hr |
| Sep 9, 5:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Yuma | 88 min |
| Sep 9, 2:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Doniphan, Jewell, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic and 2 more | 114 min |
| Sep 9, 2:34 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Cloud, Doniphan, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 9, 4:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Cloud, Doniphan, Jewell, Marshall and 8 more | 54 min |
| Sep 9, 4:26 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellsworth, Finney and 23 more | 94 min |
| Sep 9, 5:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell, Nemaha, Republic and 1 more | 90 min |
| Sep 9, 11:13 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burt, Cuming, Thurston, Washington | 62 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 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.